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The world food economy
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The world food economy

Author: Douglas DeWitt Southgate; Douglas H Graham; Luther G Tweeten
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas DeWitt Southgate; Douglas H Graham; Luther G Tweeten
ISBN: 1405105968 9781405105965 1405105976 9781405105972
OCLC Number: 70911128
Description: xiii, 402 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Our focus -- 1.2. Chapter outline -- Study questions -- 2. The demand side : how population growth and higher incomes affect food consumption -- 2.1. Classic malthusianism, its modern variants, and its critiques -- 2.2. Demographic transition -- 2.3. Trends in human numbers, past and present -- 2.4. Food consumption and income -- 2.5. Demand trends and projections -- 2.6. Summary and conclusions -- Study questions -- Appendix. The fundamental economics of demand -- 3. The supply side : agricultural production and its determinants -- 3.1. The nature of agriculture -- 3.2. Increases in agricultural supply -- 3.3. Has intensification run its course? -- 3.4. Trends in per-capita production -- Study questions -- Appendix. The fundamental economics of supply -- 4. Aligning the consumption and production of food over time -- 4.1. The desirability of competitive equilibrium -- 4.2. The market impacts of commodity programs -- 4.3. Historical trends in the scarcity of agricultural products -- 4.4. Outlook for the twenty-first century -- Study questions -- Appendix. The coordination of decentralized decision-making -- 5. Agriculture and the environment -- 5.1. Environmental trade-offs -- 5.2. Market failure -- 5.3. Environmental deterioration in the absence of agricultural intensification -- 5.4. Agricultural development and the environment -- Study questions -- 6. Globalization and agriculture -- 6.1. The theory of comparative advantage -- 6.2. The net costs of trade distortions -- 6.3. The debate over globalization -- 6.4. Agricultural trade : recent trends and the current debate -- 6.5. Why not more trade? -- Study questions -- Appendix. A two-country illustration of comparative advantage -- 7. Agriculture and economic development -- 7.1. Growth and economic structure -- 7.2. Agriculture's role in economic development -- 7.3. Trying to develop at agriculture's expense -- 7.4. Agricultural development for the sake of economic growth and diversification -- 7.5. Summary and conclusions -- Study questions -- 8. Striving for food security -- 8.1. What is food security? -- 8.2. Who and where are the food insecure? -- 8.3. Achieving food security -- 8.4. The food security synthesis and economic development -- 8.5. The standard model, communitarian values, and economic equity -- Study questions -- 9. A synopsis of regional trends in the global food economy -- 9.1. Economic growth and income distribution -- 9.2. Population dynamics -- 9.3. Agriculture's response to demand growth -- 9.4. Summary -- Study questions -- 10. Affluent nations -- 10.1. Standards of living -- 10.2. Population dynamics -- 10.3. The food economy -- 10.4. Dietary change and consumption trends -- 10.5. Summary -- Study questions -- 11. Asia -- 11.1. Trends in GDP per capita -- 11.2. Population dynamics -- 11.3. Agricultural development -- 11.4. Dietary change, consumption trends, and food security -- 11.5. Summary -- Study questions -- 12. Latin America and the Caribbean -- 12.1. Trends in GDP per capita -- 12.2. Population dynamics -- 12.3. Agricultural development -- 12.4. Dietary change, consumption trends, and food security -- 12.5. Summary -- Study questions -- 13. The Middle East and North Africa -- 13.1. Trends in GDP per capita -- 13.2. Population dynamics -- 13.3. Agricultural development -- 13.4. Dietary change, consumption trends, and food security -- 13.5. Summary -- Study questions -- 14. Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- 14.1 Patterns of economic growth since the fall of communism -- 14.2. Demographic trends -- 14.3. The agricultural sector -- 14.4. Dietary change, consumption trends, and food security -- 14.5. Summary -- Study questions -- 15. Sub-Saharan Africa -- 15.1. Trends in GDP per capita -- 15.2. Demographic trends -- 15.3. Agricultural development -- 15.4. Consumption trends and food security -- 15.5. Summary -- Study questions -- 16. The global food economy in the twenty-first century -- 16.1. Victims of our own success? -- 16.2. The new food economy -- 16.3. The changing role of government -- Study questions -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Map annex.
Responsibility: Douglas Southgate, Douglas H. Graham, and Luther Tweeten.
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