{"product_id":"food-policy-for-developing-countries-the-role-of-government-in-global-national-and-local-food-systems-hardback-9780801448188","title":"Food Policy for Developing Countries; The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems (Hardback) 9780801448188","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFood Policy for Developing Countries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePer Pinstrup-Andersen (Author), Derrill D. Watson II (Author), Soren E. Frandsen (Foreword by), Arie Kuyvenhoven (Foreword by), Joachim von Braun (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801448188\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 12 halftones, 17 line drawings, 21 tables, 11 charts\/graphs - 50 Charts\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.9 cm, 1.361 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood Policy for Developing Countries\u003c\/i\u003e is a serious look at how global food policies affect nutrition and health, poverty and food insecurity, and domestic markets, and the effects of all this on managing natural resources and climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e - Marion Nestle (The Atlantic)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDespite 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. \u003c\/b\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eCase Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries \u003c\/i\u003e(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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood Policy for Developing Countries\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Toward a Dynamic Global Food System\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eToward a Global Food Systems Approach — The Global Food System — Complex Systems Analysis — Organizations That Impact the Food System — Emerging Trends and Driving Forces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Food Policy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDefinition of Food Policy — Political Economics — Stakeholder Analysis — Food Policy in the Global Food System — How Do Governments Intervene? — Macroeconomic Policies and the Food System — A Political Economy Analysis of Food Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Human Health and Nutrition Policies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDietary Energy and Nutrients — Other Food System Interactions with Human Health — Current World Health and Nutrition Situation — Nutrition Transition — Economic Payoffs from Health and Nutrition Improvements — Policy Options to Improve Health and Nutrition — Comparing Alternatives: An Example of Efforts to Reduce Dietary Iron Deficiency \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Food Security, Consumption, and Demand Policies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Food Consumption Situation — Food Security: Millennium Development Goals and the World Food Summit — Household Choices: Coping and Adaptation — Population Growth and Demographic Transitions — Consumer and Household Demand Analysis — Food Consumption Analysis — Food Consumption Policies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Poverty Alleviation Policies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorld Poverty Situation — Who Stays Poor? — Conceptual Issues of Multidimensional Poverty — Poverty and the Food System — Poverty Reduction Policies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Domestic Market Policies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Marketing System — Introductory Theory of the Firm — Food Markets — Structural Change in Food Markets — Food Marketing Policies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Food Production and Supply Policies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Economic Importance of Agricultural Production — Food Production Situation — New Farming Techniques — Increasing Yields through Research and the Green Revolution — Smallholder Agriculture — Policies for Production and Supply — Contextual Policies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Climate Change, Energy, and Natural Resource Management Policies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Food System and Natural Resource Management — Environmental Externalities Related to the Food System — Climate Change and the Food System — Poverty, Hunger, and Sustainability Goals: Trade-Offs and Policy Implications — The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Full-Costing — Policy Options to Maintain Sustainable Use of Natural Resources\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Governance and Institutions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInstitutions in Economics — Governance Situation — Governance and the Food System — Recent Trends in Governance — International Governance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: Globalization and the Food System\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe International Food Trade Situation — The International Capital Market — International Technology Transfer — The Role of Biotechnology — The International Labor Market — Policies to Guide Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: Ethical Aspects of Food Systems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEthical Systems — Social Welfare Functions and Pareto Efficiency — Equity and Equality — Households and Other Actors — Poverty, Hunger, and Nutrition — Food Safety — Food Sovereignty — Markets and Morality — Animal Welfare and Environmental Ethics — Trade and Aid — Implicit Normativity in Research — Biotechnology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739409084696,"sku":"9780801448188","price":34.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/food-policy-for-developing-countries-the-role-of-government-in-global-national-and-local-food-systems-hardback-9780801448188","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}