Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People : Themes and Case Studies PDF
Edited by Marc (Oxfam America, USA) Cohen, Melinda (Food Security Group, USA) Smale
Part of the Development in Practice Books series
Description
This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries.
Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts.
This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people.
In addition to country and regional case studies, the book presents discussions of cross-cutting themes, including gender, risk management, violence, the importance of subsistence farming as a coping strategy, and the role of governments and markets in addressing higher prices. With 2011 witnessing an unprecedentedly high level of food prices, the findings and policy recommendations presented here should prove useful to both scholars and policy makers in understanding the causes and consequences, as well as the policies needed to ensure food security in light of the skyrocketing cost of food. This book was published as a special double issue of Development in Practice.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:344 pages, 30 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781317979074
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:344 pages, 30 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/06/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781317979074
