Title Food security and scarcity : why ending hunger is so hard / C. Peter Timmer

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) : illustrations Contents Preface -- 1. Setting The Stage: Food Scarcity And Food Prices -- 2. Learning To Manage Food Security: A Policy Perspective -- 3. Understanding Food Security Dynamics: Models And Numbers -- 4. Structural Transformation As The Pathway To Food Security -- 5. When Pro- Poor Growth And Structural Transformation Fail -- 6. The Political Economy Of Food Security: Food Price Volatility And Policy Responses -- 7. The Way Forward: The Time Horizon Matters Summary Ending hunger requires that each society find the right balance of market forces and government interventions to bring even a country's most vulnerable citizens into a sustainable food system. C. Peter Timmer explains how food markets operate and when it is effective for governments to step in Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Food security -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries Food security -- Government policy -- Developing countries Food supply -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries Food supply -- Government policy -- Developing countries Agriculture and state -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory. Agriculture and state -- Economic aspects Agriculture -- Economic aspects Food supply -- Economic aspects Food supply -- Government policy Lebensmittelangebot Lebensmittelversorgung Landwirtschaft Hunger Developing countries Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812290516 0812290518

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