Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries : : Domestic Policies for Markets, Production, and Environment / / ed. by Fuzhi Cheng, Per Pinstrup-Andersen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Babu, Suresh,; Baker, Derek,; Birthal, P. S.,; Braun, Joachim von,; D'Haese, Marijke,; Dever, Joseph,; Gersfelt, Birgitte,; Hazell, Peter,; Hoey, Lesli,; Jones, Andrew,; Joshi, P. K.,; Kaitira, Loyce M.,; Kawa, Ibrahim H.,; Liitzheft, Kimmie Graber-,; Minot, Nicholas,; Narayanan, Sudha,; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope,; Philipose, Anandita,; Phillips, Erica,; Posthumus, Helena,; Rhoads, James,; Ruben, Ruerd,; Sanyal, Prabuddha,; Serova, Eugenia,; Shimokawa, Satoru,; Sáenz-Segura, Fernando,
• HerausgeberIn: Cheng, Fuzhi,; Pinstrup-Andersen, Per,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

The food problems now facing the world-scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity-are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions?In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools and have been designed to complement the textbook Food Policy for Developing Countries by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world's food systems today.Volume II of the Case Studies addresses the issues of domestic policies for markets, production, and the environment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Overview -- Part One: Domestic Market Policies -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Concentration in Agribusiness and Marketing: A Case Study of Aria Foods (6-1) -- Chapter Two. A Revolution in the Making: The Case of Agro-Food Retailing in India (6-2) -- Chapter Three. Contract Farming in Developing Countries: Patterns, Impact, and Policy Implications (6-3) -- Chapter Four. Smallholder Farmers' Access to Markets for High-Value Agricultural Commodities in India (6-4) -- Chapter Five. Small~Farm Access to High-Value Horticultural Markets in Kenya (6-5) -- Chapter Six. Contract Fanning in Costa Rica: A Case Study on Contracts in Pepper Fanning (6-6) -- Chapter Seven. Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Market Competitiveness in Tanzania (6-7) -- Chapter Nine. Rural Road Investments, Agricultural Development, and Poverty Alleviation in China (6-9) -- Chapter Ten. The Growing Trend of Farmers' Markets in the United States (6-10) -- Part Two: Production Policies -- Introduction -- Chapter Eleven. The 2002 Malawi Famine (7-1) -- Chapter Twelve. Persistent Food Insecurity from Policy Failures in Malawi (7-2) -- Chapter Thirteen. Policy Implications of Droughts and Food Insecurity in Malawi and Zambia (7-3) -- Chapter Fourteen. Famine and Food Insecurity in Ethiopia (7-4) -- Chapter Fifteen. Managing Drought Risks in the Low-Rainfall Areas of the Middle East and North Africa (7-5) -- Chapter Sixteen. Policy Measures for Pastoralists in Niger (7-6) -- Chapter Seventeen. Farm Restructuring in Transition: Land Distribution in Russia (7-7) -- Chapter Eighteen. Biodiesel and India's Rural Economy (7-8) -- Part Three: Natural Resource Management Policies -- Introduction -- Chapter Nineteen. Civil Society Strategy to Fight Soil Degradation in Peru (8-1) -- Chapter Twenty. Incentives for Soil Conservation in Peru (8-2) -- Chapter Twenty-One. Environment and Health in Rural Kazakhstan: Linking Agricultural Policy and Natural Resource Management to Rural Welfare (8-3) -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Allocating Irrigation Water in Egypt (8-4)