Handbook on food Demand, supply, sustainability and security

By:

Jha Raghbendra Ed

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Publication details: London Edward Elgar 2014Description: 551P xxiii PBISBN:

9781783473915

DDC classification:

338.19 JHA

Contents:

Contents: Preface 1. Overview: Handbook on Food Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil B. Deolalikar 2. The Political Economy of Food Security: A Behavioral Perspective C. Peter Timmer 3. Shocks to the System: Monitoring Food Security in a Volatile World Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan 4. Food Price Inflation, Growth and Poverty Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan 5. Transmission of Global Food Prices, Supply Response and Impacts on the Poor David Dawe 6. The Financialization of Food Commodity Markets Christopher L. Gilbert and Simone Pfuderer 7. Financialization of Food Commodity Markets, Price Surge and Volatility: New Evidence Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi S. Imai and Ganesh Thapa 8. Dietary Shift and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi S. Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni & Ganesh Thapa 9. Dietary Change, Nutrient Transition and Food Security in Fast Growing China Jing You 10. Poverty-Nutrition Traps Raghbendra Jha, Katsushi S. Imai & Raghav Gaiha 11. The Political Economy of Dietary Allowances C. Sathyamala 12. Economic Prosperity and Non-Communicable Disease: Understanding the Linkages Ajay Mahal and Lainie Sutton 13. Trade Food and Welfare Alexander Sarris 14. Enhancing Food Security: Agricultural Productivity, International Trade and Poverty Reduction Peter Warr 15. Best-fit Options of Crop Staples for Food Security: Productivity, Nutrition and Sustainability Jill E. Gready 16. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture and Their Mitigation Francesco N. Tubiello and Josef Schmidhuber 17. Land Degradation, Water Scarcity and Sustainability Manab Das, Debashish Goswami, Anshuman and Alok Adheleya 18. Viability of Small-Scale Farms in Asia Keijiro Otsuka 19. Food Entitlements, Subsidies and Right to Food: A South Asian Perspective Simrit Kaur 20. Global Middle Class and Dietary Patterns: A Sociological Perspective Vani S. Kulkarni Index

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	MPP SECTIO	MPP Section	338.19 JHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		35237

Agriculture - Economic Aspects

Food Industry & Trade - Food Supply - Forecasting

Food Security - Food Supply

Contents:

Preface

1. Overview: Handbook on Food Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security
Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil B. Deolalikar

2. The Political Economy of Food Security: A Behavioral Perspective
C. Peter Timmer

3. Shocks to the System: Monitoring Food Security in a Volatile World
Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan

4. Food Price Inflation, Growth and Poverty
Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan

5. Transmission of Global Food Prices, Supply Response and Impacts on the Poor
David Dawe

6. The Financialization of Food Commodity Markets
Christopher L. Gilbert and Simone Pfuderer

7. Financialization of Food Commodity Markets, Price Surge and Volatility: New Evidence
Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi S. Imai and Ganesh Thapa

8. Dietary Shift and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS
Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi S. Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni & Ganesh Thapa

9. Dietary Change, Nutrient Transition and Food Security in Fast Growing China
Jing You

10. Poverty-Nutrition Traps
Raghbendra Jha, Katsushi S. Imai & Raghav Gaiha

11. The Political Economy of Dietary Allowances
C. Sathyamala

12. Economic Prosperity and Non-Communicable Disease: Understanding the Linkages
Ajay Mahal and Lainie Sutton

13. Trade Food and Welfare
Alexander Sarris

14. Enhancing Food Security: Agricultural Productivity, International Trade and Poverty Reduction
Peter Warr

15. Best-fit Options of Crop Staples for Food Security: Productivity, Nutrition and Sustainability
Jill E. Gready

16. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture and Their Mitigation
Francesco N. Tubiello and Josef Schmidhuber

17. Land Degradation, Water Scarcity and Sustainability
Manab Das, Debashish Goswami, Anshuman and Alok Adheleya

18. Viability of Small-Scale Farms in Asia
Keijiro Otsuka

19. Food Entitlements, Subsidies and Right to Food: A South Asian Perspective
Simrit Kaur

20. Global Middle Class and Dietary Patterns: A Sociological Perspective
Vani S. Kulkarni

Index

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