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" Food security : "
edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya and Benjamin Davis.
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BL
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1018992
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b773362
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Food security : : indicators, measurement, and the impact of trade openness /\ edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya and Benjamin Davis.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2007.
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UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
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xxiv, 371 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0199236550
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: 9780199236558
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction / Basudeb Guha-Khanobis, Shabd S. Acharya, Benjamin Davis -- Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy / Mauro Migotto [and others] -- Measures of food insecurity at the household level / Indranil Dutta, Craig Gundersen -- Tomorrow's hunger : a framework for analysing vulnerability to food security / Christian Romer Løvendal, Marco Knowles -- Women's status and children's food security in Pakistan / Basudeb Guha-Kahsnobis, Gautam Hazarika -- The changing pattern of undernutrition in India : a comparative analysis across regions / Brinda Viswanathan, J.V. Meenakshi -- Food security in Vietnam during the 1990s : the empirical evidence / Vasco Molini -- Measuring the efficacy of targeted schemes : public works programmes in India / Nilabja Ghosh, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis -- The impact of domestic and international commodity price volatility on agricultural income instability in Ghana, Vietnam, and Peru / George Rapsomanikis, Alexander Sarri -- Agricultural support measures of developed countries and food insecurity in developing countries / Michael Herrmann -- An analysis of the potential impact of the current WTO agricultural negotiations on government strategies in the SADC region / James Hodge, Andrew Charman -- International trade, food security, and response to the WTO in South Asian countries / Ramesh Chand -- Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Sharan Africa? / Samuel K. Gayi -- Food retailing, supermarkets, and food security : highlights from Latin America / Mehmet Arda.
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"What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy? Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to end poverty. The emergence of the WTO and the freeing of agricultural trade, for example, have serious implications for hunger and food security in many countries, yet this is an area that is relatively understudied. This book aims to fill this gap by providing a significant collection of essays from mainstream academia and prominent international organizations working for food security. Examining food security across regions, the book tackles food security at three distinct levels-national, household, and individual. Other topics included are: attempts to improve measurement tools; the applications of existing tools for empirical analysis using household data, and; the impact of trade openness on national food security."--Jacket.
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Agriculture and state-- Developing countries.
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Food relief-- Developing countries.
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Food supply-- Research.
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Food supply-- Developing countries.
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Aliments-- Approvisionnement-- Recherche.
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Aliments-- Approvisionnement-- Pays en voie de développement.
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Agriculture and state.
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Food relief.
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Food supply-- Research.
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Food supply.
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Lebensmittelversorgung
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Developing countries.
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Entwicklungsländer
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Entwicklungsländer.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.191724
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HD9018.D44F66563 2007
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Acharya, S. S.
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Davis, Benjamin,1964-
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Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb.
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