Food Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems - Couverture rigide

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per; Watson II, Derrill D.

 
9780801448188: Food Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems
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ISBN 10 : 0801448182 ISBN 13 : 9780801448188
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies.

In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries (also from Cornell), the 2001 World Food Prize laureate Per Pinstrup-Andersen and his colleague Derrill D. Watson II analyze international food policies and discuss how such policies can and must address the many complex challenges that lie ahead in view of continued poverty, globalization, climate change, food price volatility, natural resource degradation, demographic and dietary transitions, and increasing interests in local and organic food production.

Food Policy for Developing Countries offers a "social entrepreneurship" approach to food policy analysis. Calling on a wide variety of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography, the authors show how all elements in the food system function together.

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À propos de l?auteur

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Copenhagen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate. His more than 400 publications include the coauthorship of Seeds of Contention.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801448182
ISBN 13 
9780801448188
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
424
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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