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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Food security. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)648563655 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis; S S Acharya; Benjamin Davis |
| ISBN: | 9780199236558 0199236550 |
| OCLC Number: | 166387313 |
| Description: | xxiv, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Basudeb Guha-Khanobis, Shabd S. Acharya, Benjamin Davis -- Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy / Mauro Migotto ... [et al.] -- Measures of food insecurity at the household level / Indranil Dutta, Craig Gundersen -- Tomorrow's hunger : a framework for analysing vulnerability to food security / Christian Romer Løvendal, Marco Knowles -- Women's status and children's food security in Pakistan / Basudeb Guha-Kahsnobis, Gautam Hazarika -- The changing pattern of undernutrition in India : a comparative analysis across regions / Brinda Viswanathan, J.V. Meenakshi -- Food security in Vietnam during the 1990s : the empirical evidence / Vasco Molini -- Measuring the efficacy of targeted schemes : public works programmes in India / Nilabja Ghosh, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis -- The impact of domestic and international commodity price volatility on agricultural income instability in Ghana, Vietnam, and Peru / George Rapsomanikis, Alexander Sarri -- Agricultural support measures of developed countries and food insecurity in developing countries / Michael Herrmann -- An analysis of the potential impact of the current WTO agricultural negotiations on government strategies in the SADC region / James Hodge, Andrew Charman -- International trade, food security, and response to the WTO in South Asian countries / Ramesh Chand -- Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Sharan Africa? / Samuel K. Gayi -- Food retailing, supermarkets, and food security : highlights from Latin America / Mehmet Arda. |
| Series Title: | Studies in development economics. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya and Benjamin Davis. |
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An apt and timely book as global food security today engages the attention of the world as never before. The Hindu This wide ranging and forward looking set of studies is a must read for policy makers, analysts and students of food security. Containing contributions from leading thinkers and doers in multilateral and developing country organizations, the volume critically examines the relevance and accuracy of available and proposed tools to measure food security, and explores their application in several dynamic contexts. Important new insights are contributed towards a better understanding of the complex pathways through which trade liberalization and farm support programs impact on the nutritional status of the poor in developing countries. Highly recommended. Dr. Peter Matlon, Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya This is a valuable contribution to the literature on food security for many reasons, including: it analyzes food security trends over time, which is relatively under-studied; food security is examined separately from poverty, which is unlike most previous studies; its focus on ex ante analysis of vulnerability to hunger and malnutrition, and the policy implications at the local, national and international levels is new and highly valuable for policy makers and practitioners; the analysis of the multiple and intertwined links between poverty, growth and hunger are clearly examined; the editors of the volume should be commended for including case studies undertaken by researchers from developing countries directly affected by food (in)security. The much too important local perspective is captured in this volume. Dr. Gobind Nankani, President, Global Development Network, New Delhi, India Read more...
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- Food supply -- Developing countries.
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- Entwicklungsländer.
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