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The World Food Problem : Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World / Phillips Foster, Howard D. Leathers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, Phillips, Author.
- Leathers, Howard D., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- An accessible analysis of the current world food problem, as well as a provocative assessment of prospects for the future.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- PART I MALNUTRITION: WHAT ARE THE FACTS?
- Introduction
- 2 Malnutrition Defined
- 3 Impacts of Undernutrition
- 4 Measuring Undernutrition
- 5 Undernutrition: Who, Where, When?
- PART 2 CAUSES OF UNDERNUTRITION
- 6 The Concept of Food Security
- 7 It Is Not Food Versus Population
- 8 Purchasing Power: Income and the Price of Food
- 9 Undernutrition and the Distribution of Income, Wealth, and Education
- 10 Demographic Factors Influencing Demand for Food
- 11 Agricultural Land, Water, and Yields
- 12 Agricultural Production and the Environment
- 13 Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition
- PART 3 POLICY APPROACHES TO UNDERNUTRITION
- 14 Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition
- 15 Policies Aimed at Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition
- 16 Policies Aimed at Demographic Causes of Undernutrition
- 17 Policies Aimed at Reducing Inequalities and Raising the Income of the Poor
- 18 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food Through Subsidized Consumption
- 19 Policies That Lower the Prices Paid to Farmers: Implicit Subsidies and the Costs of Urban Bias
- 20 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food by Increasing the Supply
- 21 Policy Concepts and Policymaking
- 22 World Food Supply and Demand for the Next Half Century: Some Alternative Scenarios
- References
- Index
- About the Book
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)
- ISBN:
- 1-68585-967-4
- OCLC:
- 1378174932
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