Handbook on food demand, supply, sustainability and security
'This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, U.K
Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd
2014
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| Summary: | 'This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of food security by leading experts in fields as diverse as trade, nutrition, public health, production, political economy, and behavioral economics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners.' --Steven Block, Tufts University, US. 'This excellent volume offers a compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several provocative original contributions from other fields. 1. Overview : handbook on food demand, supply, sustainability and security / Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil Deolalikar -- 2. The political economy of food security : a behavioral perspective / C. Peter Timmer -- 3. Shocks to the system : monitoring food security in a volatile world / Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan -- 4. Food price inflation, growth and poverty / Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan -- 5. Transmission of global food prices, supply response and impacts on the poor / David Dawe -- 6. The financialization of food commodity markets / Christopher L. Gilbert and Simone Pfuderer -- 7. Financialization of food commodity markets, price surge and volatility / Kritika Mathur ... [et al.] -- 8. Dietary shifts and diet quality in India : an analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th rounds of NSS / Raghav Gaiha ... [et al.] -- 9. Dietary change, nutrient transition and food security in fast growing China / Jing You -- 10. Poverty-nutrition traps / Raghbendra Jha, Katsushi Imai & Raghav Gaiha -- 11. The political economy of dietary allowances / C. Sathyamala -- 12. Economic prosperity and non-communicable disease : understanding the linkages / Ajay Mahal and Lainie Sutton -- 13. Trade food and welfare / Alexander Sarris -- 14. Enhancing food security : agricultural productivity, international trade and poverty reduction / Peter Warr -- 15. Best-fit options of crop staples for food security : productivity, nutrition and sustainability / Jill Gready -- 16. Emissions of greenhouse gases from agriculture and their mitigation / Francesco N. Tubiello and Josef Schmidhuber -- 17. Land degradation, water scarcity and sustainability / Manab Das ... [et al.] -- 18. Viability of small-scale farms in Asia / Keijiro Otsuka -- 19. Food entitlements, subsidies and right to food / Simrit Kaur -- 20. Middle class dietary consumption pattern : a conceptual and sociological overview / Vani S. Kulkarni It examines key topics such as: the impact of prosperity on food demand, the role of international trade in addressing food insecurity, the challenge posed by greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land degradation, the implication on labor markets of severe under-nutrition, viability of small scale farms, strategies to augment food availability. The Handbook on Food would be a welcome supplementary text for courses on development economics, particularly those concentrating on agricultural development, climate change and food availability, as well as nutrition The book draws particularly on the authors' long experience in Asia, offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world.' --William A. Masters, Tufts University, US. The global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and even security challenge and requires research (and action) from a multi-disciplinary perspective. This book provides the first such integrated approach to tackling this problem by addressing the multiplicity of challenges posed by rising global population, diet diversification and urbanization in developing countries and climate change. |
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| Physical Description: | 576 p |
| ISBN: | 1781004285 9781781004296 9781781004289 |