TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leathers,Howard D.
AU  - Foster,Phillips
TI  - The world food problem: toward ending undernutrition in the Third World 
SN  - 9781588266385 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HD9018.D44 L43 2009
U1  - 363.8091724 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boulder
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Poor
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Malnutrition
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Nutrition policy
KW  - International cooperation
N1  - Foster's name appears first on first and second editions; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -