Food Shortages

Author : John McClintock
Publisher : CABI
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786394842

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The Fight Against Food Shortages and Surpluses by John McClintock Pdf

The price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable. It can suddenly shoot up, making food unaffordable for millions of people around the world, bringing hunger and famine. A shortage may be due to bad weather or to a human pandemic which disrupts the food system. The other side of the volatility coin is a grain surplus - too much grain on the market. A grain surplus can cause food prices to rapidly fall, wiping out the profits of farming families and jeopardising their livelihoods. The whole world would be better off if commodity prices were more stable. Authored by an agricultural economist with thirty years of practical experience in farm policy, this book will assist governments in the design of their food and agricultural policies. Requiring no prior knowledge of economics, it is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in the areas of economics, international and sustainable development, agriculture, and food security.

Author : Julian Cribb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520271234

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The Coming Famine by Julian Cribb Pdf

Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth

Author : Dawn M. Drake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216171560

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Food Shortage Crisis by Dawn M. Drake Pdf

Discover the history, causes, impacts, and potential future of global food shortages-a problem for all of humanity, not just the developing world. This important reference work takes an in-depth look at the geographic nature of the problem of global food shortages, helping readers to understand that while this is not a problem that exists everywhere, it is a problem that touches everyone. The book begins with an introduction to the basics of global food shortages, moves through the history of the issue, and then explains the current state of affairs. From there, it examines root causes, proposes solutions, and takes a speculative look into the future. This organization moves readers through the problem in a systematic and easy-to-follow manner, while also allowing them to explore each aspect of the issue individually. A curated selection of further readings at the end of each chapter points readers toward resources for additional research and discovery. The book concludes with a selection of perspective essays written by expert contributors. Each explores a different facet of the topic, from the potential of GMO crops to the impact of food waste. Food Shortage Crisis illustrates that the problems of food scarcity and insecurity are neither new nor confined to the developing world. They are the result of a complex interplay of issues at every stage of the process of feeding humanity, from food production to sale and distribution to consumption. Age-old factors such as poverty and inequality are compounded by new realities such as climate change. Global food shortages affect more than human health; they have the potential to cause economic devastation, trigger civil unrest and international conflicts, and change how we as humans interact with the planet and each other.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Meat industry and trade
ISBN : UCBK:C055720648

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Food Shortages by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages Pdf

Author : Erin L. McCoy
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502640666

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Food Shortages by Erin L. McCoy Pdf

The world is now home to more than 7.5 billion people, and the population is growing faster than ever before. Many experts have questioned whether Earth can sustain this growing population, or whether famine and water shortages are an inevitable result. Middle school readers will discover all the challenges in food and water production that humans face today, and learn about global efforts to battle the threat of food shortages. Full-color photographs, sidebars, and a glossary aid in their understanding of the issue.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Meat industry and trade
ISBN : LOC:0013663897A

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Food Shortages: Sugar by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages Pdf

Apr. 16 and 17 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.; Apr. 18 hearing was held in Cleveland, Ohio; Apr. 23 hearing was held in Boston, Mass.; Apr. 24 hearing was held in Providence, R.I.; and Apr. 25 hearing was held in NYC.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Meat industry and trade
ISBN : LOC:00141330925

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Food Shortages: Dairy products by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Meat industry and trade
ISBN : LOC:00141316862

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Food Shortages: Meat by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages Pdf

Apr. 16 and 17 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.; Apr. 18 hearing was held in Cleveland, Ohio; Apr. 23 hearing was held in Boston, Mass.; Apr. 24 hearing was held in Providence, R.I.; and Apr. 25 hearing was held in NYC.

Author : Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1554581982

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The Global Food Crisis by Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen Pdf

The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Author : Julian Cribb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520260719

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The Coming Famine by Julian Cribb Pdf

Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth

Author : Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315465920

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Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960 by Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley Pdf

In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly international. The war applied a profound shock to this system. In some countries farms became battlefields, causing the extensive destruction of buildings, crops and livestock. In others, farmers had to respond to calls from the state for increased production to cope with the effects of wartime disruption of international trade. By the end of the war food was rationed when it was obtainable at all. Only fifteen years later the erstwhile enemies were planning ways of bringing about a single agricultural market across much of continental western Europe, as farmers mechanised, motorized, shed labour, invested capital, and adopted new technologies to increase output. This volume brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s. Their work is structured around four themes: the changes in the international political order within which agriculture operated; the emergence of a range of different market regulation schemes that preceded the CAP; changes in technology and the extent to which they were promoted by state policy; and the impact of these political and technical changes on rural societies in western Europe.

Author : Janet Poppendieck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0140245561

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Sweet Charity? by Janet Poppendieck Pdf

In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow.In Sweet Charity?, Poppendieck travels the country to work in soup kitchens and "gleaning" centers, reporting from the frontlines of America's hunger relief programs to assess the effectiveness of these homegrown efforts. We hear from the "clients" who receive meals too small to feed their families; from the enthusiastic volunteers; and from the directors, who wonder if their "successful" programs are in some way perpetuating the problem they are struggling to solve. Hailed as the most significant book on hunger to appear in decades, Sweet Charity? shows how the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on board.

Author : Tom Philpott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781635573145

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Perilous Bounty by Tom Philpott Pdf

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott. More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the conversation about what we eat, a combination of global diet trends and corporate interests have put American agriculture into a state of "quiet emergency," from dangerous drought in California--which grows more than 50 percent of the fruits and vegetables we eat--to catastrophic topsoil loss in the "breadbasket" heartland of the United States. Whether or not we take heed, these urgent crises of industrial agriculture will define our future. In Perilous Bounty, veteran journalist and former farmer Tom Philpott explores and exposes the small handful of seed and pesticide corporations, investment funds, and magnates who benefit from the trends that imperil us, with on-the-ground dispatches featuring the scientists documenting the damage and the farmers and activists who are valiantly and inventively pushing back. Resource scarcity looms on the horizon, but rather than pointing us toward an inevitable doomsday, Philpott shows how the entire wayward ship of American agriculture could be routed away from its path to disaster. He profiles the farmers and communities in the nation's two key growing regions developing resilient, soil-building, water-smart farming practices, and readying for the climate shocks that are already upon us; and he explains how we can help move these methods from the margins to the mainstream.

Author : J. R. Fisher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542596807

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Great American Food Shortage by J. R. Fisher Pdf

Could we soon be facing one of the biggest food shortages that has ever hit America? Could this food shortage soon hit your community with such force that you and your family will be standing in long food lines with the masses begging for whatever you can get? In this book Mr. Fisher reveals the chilling truth and facts that prove how major governments use a well established "food cartel" to control not only the food supply but also the lives of hundreds of millions of people. If you want to be prepared and protect your family from the life threatening effects of major food shortages, you will defiantly want to read this book. Learn the life saving tips that you will need to survive before it's too late.

Author : Dorosh, Paul A.,Babu, Suresh Chandra
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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From famine to food security: Lessons for building resilient food systems by Dorosh, Paul A.,Babu, Suresh Chandra Pdf

Armed conflict combined with prolonged drought has put about 20 million people at risk of starvation and death in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and northern Nigeria. The international development and aid communities are caught between the enormity of the humanitarian crisis, which demands an estimated US$4.4 billion to address, and the lack of resources forthcoming from donors. Food crises, famine-like conditions, and famines recur with regularity in many developing countries (see Box 1 for definitions of terms). Although the current famines can be largely attributed to conflicts, chronic food insecurity also threatens several other African countries. For example, 6.7 million people were affected by Malawi’s largest food crisis in decades in 2016–2017, and the country remains vulnerable to weather extremes that could create food emergencies (World Bank 2017). In Kenya, food security has deteriorated since the end of 2016 and half of its 47 counties face food shortages (Chatterjee and Mengistu 2017). How do countries prepare to prevent shocks—natural and man-made—from generating food crises? What does it take to break the cycle of chronic food insecurity and build resilient food systems? How have some countries managed to prevent drought from leading to famine? In this brief, we document lessons for building resilient food systems to prevent future famines.