Agriculture & Food Supply Policies, Health Policy, General & Miscellaneous Health Policies, Hunger & Famine
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Overview
Authors Leathers (agriculture and resource economics, U. of Maryland) and Foster (agriculture and resource economics emeritus, U. of Maryland) assert that although rates of undernutrition have improved somewhat, the underlying causes, such as income distribution and other inequities continue to have devastating consequences for 800 million people. They show how the causes are not as simple as "food vs. population," how policies aimed at raising incomes, lowering prices, or improving distribution both work and hamper efforts to provide sufficient nutritional resources, and how policies that give farmers incentives to increase yields offer some hope of feeding the world. Materials new to this edition include updated data and chapters on the history of famine, the basic economics of supply and demand, and economics and policy analyses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
July 31, 2004
Publisher
Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004.
Pages
420
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781588262509