Handbook on Food

Edited by Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil Deolalikar ()

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Abstract: The global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and even security challenge and requires research (and action) from a multi-disciplinary perspective. This book provides the first such integrated approach to tackling this problem by addressing the multiplicity of challenges posed by rising global population, diet diversification and urbanization in developing countries and climate change.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9781781004289
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Overview: Handbook on Food: Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security , pp 1-21

Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil Deolalikar

Ch 2 The political economy of food security: a behavioral perspective , pp 22-40

Charles Timmer

Ch 3 Shocks to the system: monitoring food security in a volatile world , pp 41-71

Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker and Jean-François Trinh Tan

Ch 4 Food price inflation, growth and poverty , pp 72-99

Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan

Ch 5 Transmission of global food prices, supply response and impacts on the poor , pp 100-121

David Dawe

Ch 6 The financialization of food commodity markets , pp 122-148

Christopher L. Gilbert and Simone Pfuderer

Ch 7 Financialisation of food commodity markets, price surge and volatility: new evidence , pp 149-176

Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai and Ganesh Thapa

Ch 8 Dietary shift and diet quality in India: an analysis based on the 50th, 61st and 66th rounds of NSS , pp 177-203

Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni and Ganesh Thapa

Ch 9 Dietary change, nutrient transition and food security in fast-growing China , pp 204-245

Jing You

Ch 10 Poverty nutrition traps , pp 246-259

Raghbendra Jha, Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

Ch 11 The political economy of dietary allowances , pp 260-277

C. Sathyamala

Ch 12 Economic prosperity and non-communicable disease: understanding the linkages , pp 278-324

Ajay Mahal and Lainie Sutton

Ch 13 Trade, food and welfare , pp 325-352

Alexandros Sarris

Ch 14 Enhancing food security: agricultural productivity, international trade and poverty reduction , pp 353-380

Peter Warr

Ch 15 Best-fit options of crop staples for food security: productivity, nutrition and sustainability , pp 381-421

Jill E. Gready

Ch 16 Emissions of greenhouse gases from agriculture and their mitigation , pp 422-442

Francesco N. Tubiello and Josef Schmidhuber

Ch 17 Land degradation, water scarcity and sustainability , pp 443-461

Manab Das, Debashish Goswami, Anshuman and Alok Adholeya

Ch 18 Viability of small-scale farms in Asia , pp 462-481

Keijiro Otsuka

Ch 19 Food entitlements, subsidies and right to food: a South Asian perspective , pp 482-514

Simrit Kaur

Ch 20 Global middle class and dietary patterns: a sociological perspective , pp 515-538

Vani S. Kulkarni

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