Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries : : Institutions and International Trade Policies / / ed. by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Fuzhi Cheng.

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 b...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction and Overview --
Part One. Governance, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Policies --
Introduction --
Chapter One. Linkages between Government Spending, Growth, and Poverty in Uganda and Tanzania (9-1) --
Chapter Two. Linkages between Government Spending, Growth, and Poverty in India and China (9-2) --
Chapter Three. Cambodia's WTO Accession (9-3) --
Chapter Four. The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Developing Countries: The Brazil-U.S. Cotton Case (9-4) --
Chapter Five. The Sugar Controversy (9-5) --
Chapter Six. Biosafety, Trade, and the Cartagena Protocol (9-6) --
Chapter Seven. Coffee, Policy, and Stability in Mexico (9-7) --
Chapter Eight. Development Strategies, Macroeconomic Policies, and the Agricultural Sector in Zambia (9-8) --
Part Two Trade and Globalization Policies --
Chapter Nine. Globalization and the Nutrition Transition: A Case Study (10-1) --
Chapter Ten. Producer Subsidies and Decoupling in the European Union and the United States (10-2) --
Chapter Eleven. U.S. Farm Policy Reforms: Domestic and International Implications (10-3) --
Chapter Twelve. CAFTA's Impact on U.S. Raw Cane Sugar Trade (10-4) --
Chapter Thirteen. The Impact of U.S. Subsidies on West African Cotton Production (10-5) --
Chapter Fourteen. Trade Liberalization in South Korea's Rice Sector: Some Policy Implications (10-6) --
Chapter Fifteen. The Textile and Clothing Agreements (10-7) --
Chapter Sixteen. The Coffee Crisis: Is Fair Trade the Solution? (10-8) --
Chapter Seventeen. Preference Erosion, the Doha Round, and African LDCs (10-9) --
Chapter Eighteen. Meeting Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Standards: What Can China Do? (10-10) --
Chapter Nineteen. Tariff Escalation in World Agricultural Trade (10-11)
Summary: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 III of the Case Studies addresses global institutions and international trade policies.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780801466380
9783110536157
DOI:10.7591/9780801466380
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Fuzhi Cheng.