The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World

Contents
Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction
PART I MALNUTRITION: WHAT ARE THE FACTS?
Introduction
2 Malnutrition Defined
3 Impacts of Undernutrition
4 Measuring Undernutrition
5 Undernutrition: Who, Where, When?
PART 2 CAUSES OF UNDERNUTRITION
Introduction
6 The Concept of Food Security
7 It Is Not Food Versus Population
8 Purchasing Power: Income and the Price of Food
9 Undernutrition and the Distribution of Income, Wealth, and Education
10 Demographic Factors Influencing Demand for Food
11 Agricultural Land, Water, and Yields
12 Agricultural Production and the Environment
13 Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition
PART 3 POLICY APPROACHES TO UNDERNUTRITION
Introduction
14 Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition
15 Policies Aimed at Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition
16 Policies Aimed at Demographic Causes of Undernutrition
17 Policies Aimed at Reducing Inequalities and Raising the Income of the Poor
18 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food Through Subsidized Consumption
19 Policies That Lower the Prices Paid to Farmers: Implicit Subsidies and the Costs of Urban Bias
20 Policies Aimed at Lowering the Price of Food by Increasing the Supply
21 Policy Concepts and Policymaking
22 World Food Supply and Demand for the Next Half Century: Some Alternative Scenarios
References
Index
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