Food Security and Scarcity : Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard / C. Peter Timmer ; Center for Global Development.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timmer, C. Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Food security.

Food security--Government policy--Developing countries.

Food supply--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Food supply.

Food supply--Government policy--Developing countries.

Food supply--Government policy.

Agriculture and state--Economic aspects.

Agriculture and state.

Food supply--Economic aspects.

Government policy.

Developing countries.

Agriculture and state--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Center for Global Development : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Contents:

1 Setting the Stage: Food Scarcity and Food Prices 1

2 Learning to Manage Food Security: A Policy Perspective 30

3 Understanding Food Security Dynamics: Models and Numbers 52

4 Structural Transformation as the Pathway to Food Security 75

5 When Pro-poor Growth and Structural Transformation Fail 114

6 The Political Economy of Food Security: Food Price Volatility and Policy Responses 138

7 The Way Forward: The Time Horizon Matters 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812246667

0812246667

OCLC:

880757360