Food Policy for Developing Countries

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University. He is the editor of The African Food System and Its Interaction with Human Health and Nutrition and coeditor of Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, volumes I, II, and III, also from Cornell, and author or editor of many other books and journal articles. Derrill D. Watson II is Assistant Professor of Economics at the American University of Nigeria. Søren E. Frandsen is the Pro-Rector of Aarhus University. Arie Kuyvenhoven is Professor Emeritus of Development Economics at Wageningen University. Joachim von Braun is a Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Professor of Economic and Technological Change at University of Bonn.

Chapter 1: Toward a Dynamic Global Food System

Toward a Global Food Systems Approach — The Global Food System — Complex Systems Analysis — Organizations That Impact the Food System — Emerging Trends and Driving ForcesChapter 2: Food Policy

Definition of Food Policy — Political Economics — Stakeholder Analysis — Food Policy in the Global Food System — How Do Governments Intervene? — Macroeconomic Policies and the Food System — A Political Economy Analysis of Food PolicyChapter 3: Human Health and Nutrition Policies

Dietary Energy and Nutrients — Other Food System Interactions with Human Health — Current World Health and Nutrition Situation — Nutrition Transition — Economic Payoffs from Health and Nutrition Improvements — Policy Options to Improve Health and Nutrition — Comparing Alternatives: An Example of Efforts to Reduce Dietary Iron Deficiency Chapter 4: Food Security, Consumption, and Demand Policies

The Food Consumption Situation — Food Security: Millennium Development Goals and the World Food Summit — Household Choices: Coping and Adaptation — Population Growth and Demographic Transitions — Consumer and Household Demand Analysis — Food Consumption Analysis — Food Consumption PoliciesChapter 5: Poverty Alleviation Policies

World Poverty Situation — Who Stays Poor? — Conceptual Issues of Multidimensional Poverty — Poverty and the Food System — Poverty Reduction PoliciesChapter 6: Domestic Market Policies

A Marketing System — Introductory Theory of the Firm — Food Markets — Structural Change in Food Markets — Food Marketing Policies Chapter 7: Food Production and Supply Policies

The Economic Importance of Agricultural Production — Food Production Situation — New Farming Techniques — Increasing Yields through Research and the Green Revolution — Smallholder Agriculture — Policies for Production and Supply — Contextual PoliciesChapter 8: Climate Change, Energy, and Natural Resource Management Policies

The Food System and Natural Resource Management — Environmental Externalities Related to the Food System — Climate Change and the Food System — Poverty, Hunger, and Sustainability Goals: Trade-Offs and Policy Implications — The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Full-Costing — Policy Options to Maintain Sustainable Use of Natural ResourcesChapter 9: Governance and Institutions

Institutions in Economics — Governance Situation — Governance and the Food System — Recent Trends in Governance — International GovernanceChapter 10: Globalization and the Food System

The International Food Trade Situation — The International Capital Market — International Technology Transfer — The Role of Biotechnology — The International Labor Market — Policies to Guide GlobalizationChapter 11: Ethical Aspects of Food Systems

Ethical Systems — Social Welfare Functions and Pareto Efficiency — Equity and Equality — Households and Other Actors — Poverty, Hunger, and Nutrition — Food Safety — Food Sovereignty — Markets and Morality — Animal Welfare and Environmental Ethics — Trade and Aid — Implicit Normativity in Research — Biotechnology