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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aTimmer, C. Peter _eautore
245	1	0	_aFood Security and Scarcity : _bWhy Ending Hunger Is So Hard / _cC. Peter Timmer.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_a1 online resource (232 p.) : _b18 illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _t1. Setting The Stage: Food Scarcity And Food Prices -- _t2. Learning To Manage Food Security: A Policy Perspective -- _t3. Understanding Food Security Dynamics: Models And Numbers -- _t4. Structural Transformation As The Pathway To Food Security -- _t5. When Pro- Poor Growth And Structural Transformation Fail -- _t6. The Political Economy Of Food Security: Food Price Volatility And Policy Responses -- _t7. The Way Forward: The Time Horizon Matters -- _tNotes -- _tReferences -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn countries that have managed to confront and cope with the challenges of food insecurity over the past two centuries, markets have done the heavy lifting. Markets serve as the arena for allocating society's scarce resources to meet the virtually unlimited needs and desires of consumers: no other mechanism can efficiently signal fluctuations in scarcity and abundance, the cost of labor, or the value of commodities. But markets fail at tasks that society regards as important; thus, governments have had to intervene to stabilize the economic environment and provide essential public goods, such as transportation and communications networks, agricultural research and development, and access to quality health and educational facilities. Ending hunger requires that each society find the right balance of market forces and government interventions to drive a process of economic growth that reaches the poor and ensures that food supplies are readily, and reliably, available and accessible to even the poorest households. But locating that balance has been a major challenge for many countries, and seems to be getting more difficult as the global economy becomes more integrated and less stable.Food Security and Scarcity explains what forms those challenges take in the long run and short term and at global, national, and household levels. C. Peter Timmer, best known for his work on the definitive text Food Policy Analysis, draws on decades of food security research and analysis to produce the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of what makes a productive, sustainable, and stable food system-and why so many countries have fallen short. Poverty and hunger are different in every country, so the manner of coping with the challenges of ending hunger and keeping it at bay will depend on equally country-specific analysis, governance, and solutions. Timmer shows that for all their problems and failures, markets and food prices are ultimately central to solving the problem of hunger, and that any coherent strategy to improve food security will depend on an in-depth understanding of how food markets operate.Published in association with the Center for Global Development.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aAgriculture and state _xEconomic aspects _zDeveloping countries.
650		0	_aAgriculture _xEconomic aspects _zDeveloping countries.
650		0	_aFood security _xEconomic aspects _zDeveloping countries.
650		0	_aFood security _xGovernment policy _zDeveloping countries.
650		0	_aFood supply _xEconomic aspects _zDeveloping countries.
650		0	_aFood supply _xGovernment policy _zDeveloping countries.
650		4	_aBusiness.
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory. _2bisacsh
653			_aBusiness.
653			_aEconomics.
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