Food security and scarcity [electronic resource] : why ending hunger is so hard / C. Peter Timmer.
2015
HD9018.D44 .T566 2015eb
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Food security and scarcity [electronic resource] : why ending hunger is so hard / C. Peter Timmer.
Author
Timmer, C. Peter, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780812290516 electronic book
9780812246667
9780812246667
Published
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) : illustrations.
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HD9018.D44 .T566 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.809172/4
Summary
Food Security and Scarcity explains what forms those challenges take in the long run and short term and at global, national, and household levels. C. Peter Timmer, best known for his work on the definitive text Food Policy Analysis, draws on decades of food security research and analysis to produce the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of what makes a productive, sustainable, and stable food system-and why so many countries have fallen short. Poverty and hunger are different in every country, so the manner of coping with the challenges of ending hunger and keeping it at bay will depend on equally country-specific analysis, governance, and solutions. Timmer shows that for all their problems and failures, markets and food prices are ultimately central to solving the problem of hunger, and that any coherent strategy to improve food security will depend on an in-depth understanding of how food markets operate.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.