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