Food Security and Scarcity : Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard

C. Peter Timmer

Ending hunger requires that each society find the right balance of market forces and government interventions to bring even a country's most vulnerable citizens into a sustainable food system. C. Peter Timmer explains how food markets operate and when it is effective for governments to step in

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Timmer, Charles Peter
Publisher:	Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
Subject:	Ernährungssicherung \| Food security \| Ernährungspolitik \| Nutrition policy \| Lebensmittelmarkt \| Food market \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Landwirtschaft \| Lebensmittelversorgung \| Lebensmittelangebot \| Hunger
Description of contents:	Description [degruyter.com] ; Description [degruyter.com] ; Description [degruyter.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (XII, 213 S.)
Series:	De Gruyter eBook-Paket Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index FrontmatterContentsPreface1. Setting The Stage: Food Scarcity And Food Prices2. Learning To Manage Food Security: A Policy Perspective3. Understanding Food Security Dynamics: Models And Numbers4. Structural Transformation As The Pathway To Food Security5. When Pro- Poor Growth And Structural Transformation Fail6. The Political Economy Of Food Security: Food Price Volatility And Policy Responses7. The Way Forward: The Time Horizon MattersNotesReferencesIndexAcknowledgments. In English
ISBN:	978-0-8122-9051-6 ; 978-0-8122-4666-7
Other identifiers:	10.9783/9780812290516 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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