This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of
enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price
crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from
diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring
accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of food security by leading
experts in fields as diverse as trade, nutrition, public health,
production, political economy, and behavioral economics. It will be
of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners.' -
Steven Block, Tufts University, US'This excellent volume offers a
compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important
changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture
important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates
among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several
provocative original contributions from other fields. The book
draws particularly on the authors' long experience in Asia,
offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy
analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food
around the world.' - William A. Masters, Tufts University, US 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. It examines key topics such as: - the impact of
prosperity on food demand - the role of international trade in
addressing food insecurity - the challenge posed by greenhouse gas
emissions from agriculture and land degradation - the implication
on labor markets of severe under-nutrition - viability of small
scale farms - strategies to augment food availability. The Handbook
on Food would be a welcome supplementary text for courses on
development economics, particularly those concentrating on
agricultural development, climate change and food availability, as
well as nutrition. Contributors include: Anshuman Adheleya, Alok
Adheleya, M. Das, D. Dawe, O. Ecker, C.L. Gilbert, D. Goswami, J.E.
Gready, D. Headey, K.S. Imai, S. Jha, N. Kaicker, S. Kaur, V.S.
Kulkarni, A. Mahal, K. Mathur, K. Otsuka, S. Pfuderer, A. Sarris,
C. Sathyamala, J. Schmidhuber, P.V. Srinivasan, L. Sutton, G.
Thapa, P. Timmer, J.-F. Trinh Tan, F.N. Tubiello, P. Warr, J. You
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