Title The world food problem : toward ending undernutrition in the Third World / Howard D. Leathers, Phillips Foster

Edition Fourth edition Published Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009

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Description xiv, 433 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Famines -- Malnutrition defined -- Measuring undernutrition -- Impacts of undernutrition -- Undernutrition: who, when, where? -- Economics : supply and demand -- It's not food vs. population -- Income distribution and undernutrition -- Other factors influencing demand for food -- Agricultural land and water -- Agricultural production and the environment -- Increasing yields through input intensity -- Increasing yields through new technology -- The interaction between undernutrition and health -- Philosophical approaches to undernutrition -- Policies that raise the incomes of the poor -- Policies that address the demographic causes of undernutrition -- Policies that reduce the price of food through subsidized consumption -- Policies that improve access to food : it's all about distribution (isn't it?) -- Policies that raise prices paid to farmers : direct subsidies and elimination of urban bias -- Policies that reduce the price of food by increasing supply -- World food supply and demand for the next half century: alternative scenarios Notes Foster's name appears first on first and second editions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Food supply -- Developing countries. Poor -- Nutrition -- Developing countries. Malnutrition -- Developing countries. Food supply -- Government policy -- Developing countries. Nutrition policy -- Developing countries. Food supply -- Developing countries -- International cooperation. Author Foster, Phillips, 1931- LC no. 2009009739 ISBN 9781588266385 (paperback: alk. paper) 1588266389 (paperback: alk. paper)

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