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The World Food Economy
Douglas Southgate, Douglas H. Graham and Luther Tweeten
Blackwell
October 2006
Paperback 416 pp, 29 illus ISBN 9781405105972
£27.00
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The questions of population growth and food supply have long been of central concern to economists. The World
Food Economy seeks to examine the lessons of the past for wealthy nations, where agricultural output
has steadily risen for decades, as well as for developing nations where the advances of the "Green Revolution"
in the 1960s have introduced new problems in addition to solutions. This text assesses the challenge of satisfying
food demand during the twenty-first century as consumers and producers in every part of the world - rich and poor
alike - feel the effects of expanded global commodity trade, food aid, and national legislation in response to
globalization.
- Examines increases in agricultural output and productivity in both the developed and developing worlds
- Analyzes the centrality of agricultural development to general economic progress and explores cases
where governments attempt to foster economic expansion while neglecting food production
- Assesses the challenge of satisfying food demand during the twenty-first century, given the effects of
globalization on international trade and national legislation.
Contents
Part I: Introduction 1.1 Our Focus
1.2 Chapter Outline
Study Questions
Part II: The Demand Side: How Population Growth and Higher Incomes Affect Food Consumption
2.1 Classic Malthusianism, its Modern Variants, and its Critiques
2.2 Demographic Transition
2.3
Trends in Human Numbers, Past and Present
2.4 Food Consumption and Income
2.5 Demand
Trends and Projections
2.6 Summary and Conclusions
Study Questions
Appendix: The
Fundamental Economics of Demand
Part III: The Supply Side: Agricultural Production and its Determinants 3.1 The Nature of
Agriculture
3.2 Increases in Agricultural Supply
3.3 Has Intensification Run its Course?
3.4 Trends in Per-Capita Consumption
Study Questions
Appendix: The Fundamental Economics
of Supply
Part IV: Aligning the Consumption and Production of Food over Time 4.1 The Desirability
of Competitive Equilibrium
4.2 The Market Impacts of Commodity Programs
4.3 Historical
Trends in the Scarcity of Agricultural Products
4.4 Outlook for the Twenty-First Century
Study
Questions
Appendix: The Coordination of Decentralized Decision-Making
Part V: Agriculture and the Environment 5.1 Environmental Trade-Offs
5.2 Market Failure
5.3 Environmental Deterioration in the Absence of Agricultural Intensification
5.4 Agricultural
Development and the Environment
Study Questions
Part VI: Globalization and Agriculture 6.1 The Theory of Comparative Advantage
6.2
The Net Costs of Trade Distortions
6.3 The Debate over Globalization
6.4 Agricultural Trade:
Recent Trends and the Current Debate
6.5 Why Not More Trade?
Study Questions
Appendix: A Two-Country Illustration of Comparative Advantage
Part VII: Agriculture and Economic Development 7.1 Growth and Economic Structure
7.2
Agriculture's Role in Economic Development
7.3 Trying to Develop at Agriculture's Expense
7.4
Agricultural Development for the Sake of Economic Growth and Diversification
7.5 Summary and
Conclusions
Study Questions
Part VIII: Striving for Food Security 8.1 What is Food Security?
8.2 Who and Where Are the
Food-Insecure?
8.3 Achieving Food Security
8.4 The Food Security Synthesis and Economic
Development
8.5 The Standard Model, Communitarian Values, and Economic Equity
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Questions
Part IX: A Synopsis of Regional Trends in the Global Food Economy 9.1 Economic Growth
and Income Distribution
9.2 Population Dynamics
9.3 Agriculture's Response to
Demand Growth
9.4 Summary
Study Questions
Tables
Part X : Affluent Nations 10.1 Standards of Living
10.2 Population Dynamics
10.3
The Food Economy
10.4 Dietary Change and Consumption Trends
10.5 Summary
Study
Questions
Tables
Part XI: Asia 11.1 Trends in GDP per Capita
11.2 Population Dynamics
11.3
Agricultural Development
11.4 Dietary Change, Consumption Trends, and Food Security
11.5 Summary
Study Questions
Tables
Part XII: Latin America and the Caribbean 12.1 Trends in GDP per Capita
12.2
Population Dynamics
12.3 Agricultural Development
12.4 Dietary Change, Consumption
Trends, and Food Security
12.5 Summary
Study Questions
Tables
Part XIII: Middle East and North Africa 13.1 Trends in GDP per Capita
13.2 Population Dynamics
13.3 Agricultural Development
13.4 Dietary
Change, Consumption Trends, and Food Security
13.5 Summary
Study Questions
Tables
Part XIV: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union 14.1 Patterns of Economic Growth since the
Fall of Communism
14.2 Demographic Trends
14.3 The Agricultural Sector
14.4 Dietary Change,
Consumption Trends, and Food Security
14.5 Summary
Study Questions
Tables
Part XV: Sub-Saharan Africa 15.1 Trends in GDP per Capita
15.2 Demographic Trends
15.3 Agricultural Development
15.4 Consumption Trends and Food Security
15.5 Summary
Study Questions
Tables
Part XVI: The Food Economy in the Twenty-First Century 16.1 Victims of Our Own Success?
16.2 The New Food Economy
16.3 The Changing Role of Government
Study Questions
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Map Annex
References
Index
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