| ISBN: | 9781588266385 (pbk.) |
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| ISBN: | 1588266389 (pbk.) |
| 编目源: | DNAL/DLC DLC C#P CDX BWX UBY DLC CIBTC |
| 地理区域代码: | d------ |
| 个人名称: | Leathers, Howard D. |
| 题名: | The world food problem : toward ending undernutrition in the Third World / Howard D. Leathers, Phillips Foster. |
| 版本说明: | 4th ed. |
| 索书号: | F113.9/L434E |
| 出版发行项: | Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. |
| 载体形态: | xiv, 433 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 一般附注: | Foster's name appears first on first and second editions. |
| 书目附注: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-419) and index. |
| 格式化内容附注: | Famines -- Malnutrition defined -- Measuring undernutrition -- Impacts of undernutrition -- Undernutrition: who, when, where? -- Economics : supply and demand -- It's not food vs. population -- Income distribution and undernutrition -- Other factors influencing demand for food -- Agricultural land and water -- Agricultural production and the environment -- Increasing yields through input intensity -- Increasing yields through new technology -- The interaction between undernutrition and health -- Philosophical approaches to undernutrition -- Policies that raise the incomes of the poor -- Policies that address the demographic causes of undernutrition -- Policies that reduce the price of food through subsidized consumption -- Policies that improve access to food : it's all about distribution (isn't it?) -- Policies that raise prices paid to farmers : direct subsidies and elimination of urban bias -- Policies that reduce the price of food by increasing supply -- World food supply and demand for the next half century: alternative scenarios. |