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1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) |
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1. Food Security -- What is Food Security? -- What is Food Insecurity? -- Measuring Chronic Food Insecurity -- Transitory Food Insecurity -- Domestic Food Prices -- Household Purchasing Power -- 2. Famine -- Famine Mortality 1903-2011 -- Defining Famine -- Operational Definition of Famine -- Theories of Famine -- Pre-modern Theories: Supply-side Factors -- Modern Theories: Demand-side Factors -- Postmodern Theory: The Failure of Accountability -- 3. The World Food System: Challenges and Options -- What is the World Food System? -- The Productionist Paradigm -- The Life Sciences Integrated Paradigm -- The Ecologically Integrated Paradigm -- 4. Peasant Farming: Current and Future Challenges -- The Peasants' World -- Defining 'Peasant' and Peasant Societies -- World Capitalism and Agrarian Change -- Peasants and the Three Worlds of Agriculture -- Agricultural Contribution to Economic Development |
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Investment and Economic Incentives for Agricultural Growth -- Agricultural Policies in Agriculture-based Developing Countries -- Peasant Farming: Constraints and Challenges -- 5. Access to Land -- Pressure for Land Reform -- Instruments of State-Led Land Reform -- Market-Led Agrarian Reform (MLAR) -- Steps towards Successful Land Reform -- Gender and Land Reform -- Land Grabbing: A New Challenge -- 6. Rural Labour Markets -- Rural Labour Markets: An Overview -- The Economics of the Household Labour Allocation Model -- Factors Affecting Labour Supply -- Factors Affecting Demand for Labour -- Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment -- 7. Rural Financial Services and the Issue of Sustainability -- Rural Credit Markets -- Credit for Agricultural Development and Poverty Reduction -- The Evolution of Rural Credit Markets -- Do Microfinance Institutions Help the Poor? -- Second Generation MFIs |
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Non-Governmental Development Organisations and MFIs: The Dilemmas -- The Sustainability of Microfinance Operations -- Gender and Credit Policy -- MFIs and the Global Financial Crisis -- 8. Water for Livelihoods -- World Waters: An Overview -- Shared Water Resources: The Political and Legal Dimensions -- State Cooperation -- Water for Livelihoods: Social, Economic and Environmental Constraints -- The Environmental Costs of Intensive and Extensive Farming -- Choices in Irrigation Technology: Shaping the Future -- Governance in Irrigation Systems -- Irrigation Policy and Gender -- Irrigation in a Resource-poor Environment -- 9. Gender and Food Security: Invisibility Revisited -- Invisible Rural Women -- Data Deficiencies: Maintaining Rural Women Invisibility -- The Feminisation of Agriculture -- Rural Women's Participation in Decision Making -- Policy Approaches to Women in Development -- Gender Mainstreaming -- Gender and the Millennium Development Goals |
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Note continued: Gender and Food Security: Policy Implications -- Rural Women's Voice -- 10. Conclusion: Food Security in Perspective -- Economic and Agricultural Growth in Africa -- Net Food Importing Countries and World Trade -- Aid to Agriculture -- Future Challenges (1): Climate Change -- Future Challenges (2): Biofuels -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Millions across the world face the daily challenge to find enough food to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally, with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity. Rising prices are further restricting food access. In this deeply informative study, Majda Bne Saad identifies the causes for global hunger embedded in the current global political and economic system and highlights the key challenges facing food deficit countries. She shows how Western countries share the blame for global hunger through their support for subsidies to agricultural production and biofuels, which have created new challenges to food security worldwide. Bne Saad argues that, as world population rises from 7 billion to 9.2 billion by 2050, there needs to be a 'second green revolution' to grow more food. She looks at the factors constraining low-income nations from achieving food security and considers policies which could generate income and enhance individuals' entitlement to food."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-278) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Food supply -- Developing countries
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Food security -- Developing countries
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
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Faim.
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Disponibilités alimentaires.
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Agriculture durable.
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Economie rurale.
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Politique agricole.
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Pays en développement.
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Food security
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Food supply
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Ernährungslage
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Ernährungssicherung
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Welternährung
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Ernährungssicherung.
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Ernährungslage.
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Aliments -- Aspect social -- Pays en voie de développement.
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Aliments -- Approvisionnement.
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Agriculture durable -- Pays en voie de développement.
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Agriculteurs -- Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions économiques.
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Ressources en eau -- Pays en voie de développement.
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Developing countries
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Entwicklungsländer
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Entwicklungsländer.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781849648608 |
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1849648603 |
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0745330673 |
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9780745330679 |
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9781849648615 |
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1849648611 |
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