Food Security and Scarcity : Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard /

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Ending hunger requires that each society find the right balance of market forces and government interventions to bring even a country's most vulnerable citizens into a sustainable food system. C. Peter Timmer explains how food markets operate and when it is effective for governments to step in.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Timmer, C. Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hunger
Landwirtschaft
Lebensmittelversorgung
Lebensmittelangebot
Food supply > Government policy.
Food supply > Economic aspects.
Agriculture > Economic aspects.
Agriculture and state > Economic aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Agriculture and state > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Food supply > Government policy > Developing countries.
Food supply > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Food security > Government policy > Developing countries.
Food security > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Setting The Stage: Food Scarcity And Food Prices
  • 2. Learning To Manage Food Security: A Policy Perspective
  • 3. Understanding Food Security Dynamics: Models And Numbers
  • 4. Structural Transformation As The Pathway To Food Security
  • 5. When Pro- Poor Growth And Structural Transformation Fail
  • 6. The Political Economy Of Food Security: Food Price Volatility And Policy Responses
  • 7. The Way Forward: The Time Horizon Matters
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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