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The World Food Problem : Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World / Phillips Foster, Howard D. Leathers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781588262509
  • 9781685858858
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.8091724 22/eng/20231120
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Malnutrition: What Are the Facts? -- Introduction -- 2 Famines -- 3 Malnutrition Defined -- 4 Measuring Undernutrition -- 5 Impacts of Undernutrition -- 6 Undernutrition: Who, When, Where? -- Part 2 Causes of Undernutrition -- Introduction -- 7 Economics: Supply and Demand -- 8 The Concept of Food Security -- 9 It Is Not Food Versus Population -- 10 Income Distribution and Undernutrition -- 11 Other Factors Influencing Demand for Food -- 12 Agricultural Land and Water -- 13 Agricultural Production and the Environment -- 14 Increasing Yields -- 15 Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition -- Part 3 Policy Approaches to Undernutrition -- Introduction -- 16 Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition -- 17 Policies Aimed at Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition -- 18 Policies Aimed at Raising the Income of the Poor -- 19 Policies Aimed at Demographic Causes of Undernutrition -- 20 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food Through Subsidized Consumption -- 21 Policies Aimed at Improving Access to Food: It's All About Distribution (Isn't It?) -- 22 Policies That Raise Prices Paid to Farmers: Direct Subsidies and Eliminating Urban Bias -- 23 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food by Increasing the Supply -- 24 World Food Supply and Demand for the Next Half-Century: Some Alternative Scenarios -- References -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: An accessible analysis of the current world food problem, as well as a provocative assessment of prospects for the future.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Malnutrition: What Are the Facts? -- Introduction -- 2 Famines -- 3 Malnutrition Defined -- 4 Measuring Undernutrition -- 5 Impacts of Undernutrition -- 6 Undernutrition: Who, When, Where? -- Part 2 Causes of Undernutrition -- Introduction -- 7 Economics: Supply and Demand -- 8 The Concept of Food Security -- 9 It Is Not Food Versus Population -- 10 Income Distribution and Undernutrition -- 11 Other Factors Influencing Demand for Food -- 12 Agricultural Land and Water -- 13 Agricultural Production and the Environment -- 14 Increasing Yields -- 15 Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition -- Part 3 Policy Approaches to Undernutrition -- Introduction -- 16 Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition -- 17 Policies Aimed at Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition -- 18 Policies Aimed at Raising the Income of the Poor -- 19 Policies Aimed at Demographic Causes of Undernutrition -- 20 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food Through Subsidized Consumption -- 21 Policies Aimed at Improving Access to Food: It's All About Distribution (Isn't It?) -- 22 Policies That Raise Prices Paid to Farmers: Direct Subsidies and Eliminating Urban Bias -- 23 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food by Increasing the Supply -- 24 World Food Supply and Demand for the Next Half-Century: Some Alternative Scenarios -- References -- Index -- About the Book

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An accessible analysis of the current world food problem, as well as a provocative assessment of prospects for the future.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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