The world food problem : toward understanding and ending undernutrition in the developing world / Howard D. Leathers, with Phillips Foster

Author:: Leathers, Howard D.
Published:: Boulder, Colorado : Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2017.
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Edition:: Fifth edition.
Physical Description:: xi, 457 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Foster, Phillips, 1931-

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- pt. 1 The Facts About Malnutrition -- 2.Famines: The Historical Context -- 3.Defining Malnutrition -- 4.Measuring Undernutrition -- 5.Why Does It Matter? -- 6.Who, When, Where? -- pt. 2 Addressing Causes of Undernutrition -- 7.Supply and Demand -- 8.It's Not Food vs. Population -- 9.The Problem of Income -- 10.Other Factors Influencing Demand -- 11.Issues of Agricultural Land and Water -- 12.Environmental Degradation and Climate Change -- 13.The Potential of Input Intensity -- 14.The Potential of New Technology -- 15.An Important Aside: The Question of Health -- pt. 3 Policy Approaches to Undernutrition -- 16.Philosophical Approaches to Food Policy -- 17.Raising the Incomes of the Poor -- 18.Population Policy -- 19.Subsidizing Consumption -- 20.It's All About Distribution (Isn't It?) -- 21.Raising Prices Paid to Farmers -- 22.Increasing Food Supply -- pt. 4 Alternative Scenarios -- 23.The Future of World Food Supply and Demand.

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9781626374515 paperback alkaline paper
1626374511 paperback alkaline paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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