The World Food Problem: Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World

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Why do millions of people in the less-developed countries go hungry, while there is an abundance of food in the world? What can be done about it? These are the issues explored in this accessible and comprehensive text. In addition to incorporating updated data throughout, this new edition includes: A comprehensive description and analysis of the 2008 food crisis An expanded discussion of the impact of using food crops to produce biofuels New case studies and recent examples to illustrate key points Examples of successful and unsuccessful policy approaches Reference to the latest research findings (with more than 150 new citations) The result is the best available analysis of the current world food problem, as well as a provocative assessment of prospects for the future. Table of Contents Introduction Malnutrition: What Are The Facts? Famines Malnutrition Defined Measuring Undernutrition Impacts of Undernutrition Undernutrition: Who, When, Where? Causes of Undernutrition 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 Policy Approaches to Undernutrition Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition Policies thatRaise 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: Some Alternative Scenarios.