TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Phillips
AU  - Leathers,Howard D.
TI  - The world food problem : tackling the causes of undernutrition in the third World
SN  - 1555877036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HD9018.D44F68 
U1  - 363.8/09172/4 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Boulder
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Poor
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Malnutrition
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Nutrition policy
KW  - International cooperation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-402) and index; Contents: Introduction -- Malnutrition defined -- Impacts of undernutrition -- Measuring undernutrition -- Undernutrition: who, where, when? -- The Concept of food security -- It is not food versus population -- Purchasing power: income and the price of food -- Undernutrition and the distribution of income, wealth and education -- Demographic factors influencing demand for food -- Agricultural land, water and yields -- Agricultural production and the environment -- Health-related causes of undernutrition -- Policies aimed at reducing inequalities and raising the income of the poor -- Policies aimed at lowering the price of food through subsidized consumption -- Policies that lower the prices paid to farmers: implicit subsidies and the costs of urban bias -- Policies aimed at lowering the price of food by increasing the supply -- Policy concepts and policymaking -- World food supply and demand for the next half century: some alternative scenarios
ER  -