AuthorTimmer, C. Peter
TitleFood security and scarcity : Why ending hunger is so hard / C. Peter Timmer
Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015
Descript xii, 213 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Setting the stage: Food scarcity and food prices -- Learning to manage food security: A policy perspective -- Understanding food security dynamics: Models and numbers -- Structural transformation as the pathway to food security -- When pro-poor growth and structural transformation fail -- The political economy of food security: food price volatility and policy responses -- The way forward: The time horizon matters


SUBJECT

  1. Food security -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
  2. Food security -- Government policy -- Developing countries
  3. Food supply -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
  4. Food supply -- Government policy -- Developing countries
  5. Agriculture and state -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
  6. Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Political Science Library363.8091724 T584F CHECK SHELVES