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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Leathers, Howard D.,; Foster, Phillips,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

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

Table of 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