Food 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
Food security -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
Food security -- Government policy -- Developing countries
Food supply -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
Food supply -- Government policy -- Developing countries
Agriculture and state -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries