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Handbook on food : demand, supply, sustainability and security / edited by Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha, Anil B. Deolalikar.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Elgar original reference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food supply--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Food supply.
- Food industry and trade--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Food industry and trade.
- Food security--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Food security.
- Food supply--Forecasting.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (564 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; New York, [New York] : Edward Elgar, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'This excellent volume offers a compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several provocative original contributions from other fields. The book draws particularly on the authors' long experience in Asia, offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world.'- William A. Masters, Tufts Univers
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; About the editors; Contributors; Preface; 1. Overview: Handbook on Food: Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security; 2. The political economy of food security: a behavioral perspective*; 3. Shocks to the system: monitoring food security in a volatile world; 4. Food price inflation, growth and poverty*; 5. Transmission of global food prices, supply response and impacts on the poor*; 6. The financialization of food commodity markets; 7. Financialisation of food commodity markets, price surge and volatility: new evidence*
- 8. Dietary shift and diet quality in India: an analysis based on the 50th, 61st and 66th rounds of NSS*9. Dietary change, nutrient transition and food security in fast-growing China; 10. Poverty nutrition traps; 11. The political economy of dietary allowances; 12. Economic prosperity and non-communicable disease: understanding the linkages; 13. Trade, food and welfare; 14. Enhancing food security: agricultural productivity, international trade and poverty reduction; 15. Best-fit options of crop staples for food security: productivity, nutrition and sustainability
- 16. Emissions of greenhouse gases from agriculture and their mitigation17. Land degradation, water scarcity and sustainability; 18. Viability of small-scale farms in Asia; 19. Food entitlements, subsidies and right to food: a South Asian perspective; 20. Global middle class and dietary patterns: a sociological perspective; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78100-429-3
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