Handbook on Food

Handbook on Food

Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security

Gaiha, Raghav; Deolalikar, Anil B.; Jha, Raghbendra

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

09/2015

576

Mole

Inglês

9781783473915

15 a 20 dias

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Contents:

Preface

1. Overview: Handbook on Food Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security
Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil B. Deolalikar

2. The Political Economy of Food Security: A Behavioral Perspective
C. Peter Timmer

3. Shocks to the System: Monitoring Food Security in a Volatile World
Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan

4. Food Price Inflation, Growth and Poverty
Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan

5. Transmission of Global Food Prices, Supply Response and Impacts on the Poor
David Dawe

6. The Financialization of Food Commodity Markets
Christopher L. Gilbert and Simone Pfuderer

7. Financialization of Food Commodity Markets, Price Surge and Volatility: New Evidence
Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi S. Imai and Ganesh Thapa

8. Dietary Shift and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS
Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi S. Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni & Ganesh Thapa

9. Dietary Change, Nutrient Transition and Food Security in Fast Growing China
Jing You

10. Poverty-Nutrition Traps
Raghbendra Jha, Katsushi S. Imai & Raghav Gaiha

11. The Political Economy of Dietary Allowances
C. Sathyamala

12. Economic Prosperity and Non-Communicable Disease: Understanding the Linkages
Ajay Mahal and Lainie Sutton

13. Trade Food and Welfare
Alexander Sarris

14. Enhancing Food Security: Agricultural Productivity, International Trade and Poverty Reduction
Peter Warr

15. Best-fit Options of Crop Staples for Food Security: Productivity, Nutrition and Sustainability
Jill E. Gready

16. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture and Their Mitigation
Francesco N. Tubiello and Josef Schmidhuber

17. Land Degradation, Water Scarcity and Sustainability
Manab Das, Debashish Goswami, Anshuman and Alok Adheleya

18. Viability of Small-Scale Farms in Asia
Keijiro Otsuka

19. Food Entitlements, Subsidies and Right to Food: A South Asian Perspective
Simrit Kaur

20. Global Middle Class and Dietary Patterns: A Sociological Perspective
Vani S. Kulkarni

Index
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Global Food Security; Diet diversification; rapid urbanization in developing countries; impact of climate change on agricultural productivity; rise in price of food; poverty-nutrition traps