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Handbook on Food

Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security
Buch | Softcover
576 Seiten
2015
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78347-391-5 (ISBN)
58,55 inkl. MwSt
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.

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.

Contributors include: Anshuman Adheleya, Alok Adheleya, M. Das, D. Dawe, O. Ecker, C.L. Gilbert, D. Goswami, J.E. Gready, D. Headey, K.S. Imai, S. Jha, N. Kaicker, S. Kaur, V.S. Kulkarni, A. Mahal, K. Mathur, K. Otsuka, S. Pfuderer, A. Sarris, C. Sathyamala, J. Schmidhuber, P.V. Srinivasan, L. Sutton, G. Thapa, P. Timmer, J.-F. Trinh Tan, F.N. Tubiello, P. Warr, J. You

Edited by the late Raghbendra Jha, formerly Emeritus Professor of Economics, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Australian National University, Australia, Raghav Gaiha, Visiting Scientist, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University and Anil B. Deolalikar, University of California, Riverside, US

Contents:

Preface

1. Overview: Handbook on Food Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security
Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil B. 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: New Evidence
Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi S. Imai and Ganesh Thapa

8. Dietary Shift and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS
Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi S. Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni & Ganesh Thapa

9. Dietary Change, Nutrient Transition and Food Security in Fast Growing China
Jing You

10. Poverty-Nutrition Traps
Raghbendra Jha, Katsushi S. 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 E. 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, Debashish Goswami, Anshuman and Alok Adheleya

18. Viability of Small-Scale Farms in Asia
Keijiro Otsuka

19. Food Entitlements, Subsidies and Right to Food: A South Asian Perspective
Simrit Kaur

20. Global Middle Class and Dietary Patterns: A Sociological Perspective
Vani S. Kulkarni

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Cheltenham
Sprache englisch
Maße 169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften
Technik Lebensmitteltechnologie
Wirtschaft
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 1-78347-391-6 / 1783473916
ISBN-13 978-1-78347-391-5 / 9781783473915
Zustand Neuware
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