Title:
Food security and scarcity : why ending hunger is so hard / C. Peter Timmer.
Author:
Timmer, C. Peter.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2015.
Call Number:
HD9018.D44 T55 2015
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780812246667
Physical Description:
xii, 213 p. : illustration ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
Setting the stage: food scarcity and food prices -- Learning to manage food security: a policy perspective -- Understanding food security dynamics: models and numbers -- Structural transformation as the pathway to food security -- When pro-poor growth and structural transformation fail -- The political economy of food security: food price volatility and policy responses -- The way forward: the time horizon matters.
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