Global food-price shocks and poor people : themes and case studies
ed. by Marc J. Cohen ...
| Year of publication: |
2012
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| Other Persons: | Cohen, Marc Jacob (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
London [u.a.] : Routledge |
| Subject: | Lebensmittelpreis | Food price | Schock | Shock | Niedrigeinkommen | Low income | Armut | Poverty | Kleinbauern | Smallholders | Ernährungssicherung | Food security | Welt | World | 2007-2008 |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | ix, 328 p ill., maps 25 cm |
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| Series: | |
| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors ; Fallstudie ; Case study |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | "This book is a reproduction of Development in practice, volume 21, issues 4-5"--T.p. verso Includes bibliographical references and index Enth. 27 Beitr. 1.Global food-price shocks and poor people - an overview / Melinda Smalept. I Themes 2.Subsistence farming as a safety net for food-price shocks / Elisabeth Sadoulet 3.Understanding and responding to the links between conflict and hunger / Marc J. Cohen 4.Gender and the global food-price crisis / Lucy Bassett 5.The links between food security and seed security: facts and fiction that guide response / Louise Sperling 6.Genetically modified crops and the `Food Crisis': Discourse and Material Impacts / Dominic Glover 7.The long-term implications of the 2007-08 commodity-price boom / John Baffes 8.Which instruments best tackle food price instability in developing countries? / Franck Galtier 9.Bearing risk is hard to do: crop price risk transfer for poor farmers and low-income countries / Leander Schneider pt. II Country Studies ; 505 8 $a10.The Mexican tortilla crisis of 2007: the impacts of grain-price increases on food-production chains / Hugo Garcia Rano 11.Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes / Sarela Paz 12.The effects of changing food prices on welfare and poverty in Guatemala / Meagan Keefe 13.Location, vocation, and price shocks: cotton, rice, and sorghum-millet farmers in Mali / Naman Keita 14.Lessons from the 2008 global food crisis: agro-food dynamics in Mali / William G. Moseley 15.Characteristics and strategies favouring sustained food access during Guinea's food-price crisis / Daniel G. Maxwell 16.Can inflation be a good thing for the poor? Evidence from Ethiopia / Elisa Ticci 17.Agro-food market policy and food security in South Africa / Peter T. Jacobs 18.High global food prices - crisis or opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania? / Illuminatous M. Kamile 19.The functioning of the Egyptian food-subsidy system during food-price shocks / Rachel Trego 20.The impact of high food prices on poverty in China / Bingxin Yu 21.Combating the menace of food insecurity: the experience of West Bengal / Dilip Kumar Ghosh 22.Revisiting the impact of economic crisis on Indonesian agro-food production / Mary M. Young 23.The impact of high food prices on food security in Cambodia / Chan Sophal 24.Food-price hikes and the situation of farm workers in the Philippines / Edgardo L. Santoalla 25.International food prices, agricultural transformation, and food security in Central Asia / Kamiljon T. Akramov 26.Two agricultural shocks in the former USSR, 60 years apart / Thomas Lines 27.Thinking and acting outside the charitable food box: hunger and the right to food in rich societies / Graham Riches. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-68298-5 ; 0-415-68298-3 ; 978-1-138-79827-4 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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