The Fight Against Food Shortages And Surpluses

Author : John McClintock
Publisher : CABI
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Ashok Gulati,Yuan Zhou,Jikun Huang,Alon Tal,Ritika Juneja
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811594847

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From Food Scarcity to Surplus by Ashok Gulati,Yuan Zhou,Jikun Huang,Alon Tal,Ritika Juneja Pdf

This book brings together unique experiences of India, China and Israel in overcoming economic, social, and natural resource challenges. Through its eleven chapters, the book captures the role of groundbreaking innovations in achieving unprecedented agricultural growth and stabilizing these nations. It provides a future outlook of the new challenges that will confront these countries in 2030 and beyond, related to tackling food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural growth and adhering to improved food safety standards. This book provides useful insights for exploring technological innovations and policies that can address these future challenges and develop profitable and sustainable agriculture. This volume also highlights valuable lessons that India, China and Israel provide for the rest of the developing world where population is growing fast; natural resources are limited; and it is a challenge to produce enough food, feed and fibre for their populations. Tracing the historical past, this book is an impressive resource for academicians, policymakers, practitioners, agribusiness players, entrepreneurs in understanding the role of innovations in addressing future challenges.

Author : Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Special Subcommittee to Investigate Food Shortages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Potatoes
ISBN : LOC:0000931104A

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Potato Surpluses and Prevention of Wastage by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Special Subcommittee to Investigate Food Shortages Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Food relief
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119633944

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Special Report on Applying United States Food Surpluses to the Problems of Hunger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 1472469658

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

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- European agriculture 1945-1960 : an introduction / Paul Brassley, Carin Martiin and Juan Pan-Montojo -- International politics -- International institutions and European agriculture : from the IIA to the FAO / Juan Pan-Montojo -- Political stability, modernization and reforms during the first years of the Cold War / Emanuele Bernardi -- International agricultural markets after the war, 1945-1960 / Ángel Luis Gonzalez, Vicente Pinilla and Raúl Serrano -- Market regulation and the motives behind it -- The policy of self-sufficiency and its impact upon rural modernization in Greece, 1928-1960 / Socrates D. Petmezas -- British agriculture in transition : food shortages to food surpluses, 1947-1957 / John Martin -- From food surplus to even greater food surplus : agrarian politics and prices in Denmark, 1945-1962 / Thomas Christiansen -- Technical change -- Mechanisation and motorisation : natural resources, knowledge, politics and technology in 19/20th centuries agriculture / Juri Auderset and Peter Moser -- Technology policies in dictatorial contexts : Spain and Portugal / Daniel Lanero and Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto -- Tractorization : France 1946-1955 / Laurent Herment -- Rural society and structural policy -- Structural policy and the state : changing agricultural society in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1945-1960 / Erwin H. Karel and Yves Segers -- From food scarcity to overproduction : saving the German peasant during the miracle years / Gesine Gerhard -- Farm labour in the urban-industrial Swedish state / Carin Martiin -- Similar means to secure postwar food supplies across Western Europe : a conclusion / Juan Pan-Montojo, Carin Martiin and Paul Brassley

Author : Jennifer Clapp,Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032402466

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

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 agri

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045079295

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Potato Surpluses and Prevention of Wastage by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture Pdf

Author : Bryan L. McDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190600686

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Food Power by Bryan L. McDonald Pdf

Debates during the postwar years about how food power could help the United States achieve goals such as stability, prosperity, and security were part of a larger conversation about the role of food in the security of states, communities, and individuals.0America helped build a new, postwar food system based on the steadying influence of American agricultural surpluses that helped maintain stable prices and food availability. This system averted a global-scale food crisis for almost three decades. The end of this food system in the early 1970s ushered in a much more unstable period in global food relations. 'Food power' argues that efforts to both interpret America's role in the world during the mid-twentieth century and to address contemporary food problems can be strengthened by understanding more fully the ways postwar American policymakers and experts sought to shape the politics of security and prosperity by linking people and places around the world through food.

Author : D. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230589780

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World Food Security by D. Shaw Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues.

Author : Bryan L. McDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190600709

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Food Power by Bryan L. McDonald Pdf

There is a widespread assumption that the American food system after World War II was transformed-toward an increasingly industrialized production of crops, more processed foods, and diets higher in fat, sugar, and calories-as part of a unified system. In this book, Bryan McDonald brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore how food was deployed in the first decades of the Cold War to promote American national security and national interests, a concept referred to as food power. In the postwar years, Americans struggled to understand how an unprecedented abundance of food could be used to best advance U.S. goals and values. Was food a weapon, a commodity to be valued and exchanged through markets, or a substance to be provided to those in need? McDonald traces different visions of food power and shows how food formed an essential part of America's postwar modernization strategy and its vision of what it meant to be a stable, secure, and technologically advanced nation. Policymakers and experts helped build a new food system based around American agricultural surpluses that stabilized prices and food availability. This system averted a global-scale food crisis for almost three decades. The end of this food system in the early 1970s ushered in a much more precarious period in global food relations. By the late twentieth century, food politics had become a battleground in which the interests of security and foreign policy experts, farmers, businesses, and politicians contended with a growing social movement whose adherents worried about the role of food in contributing to conflict and inequality. Food Power argues that the ways postwar American policymakers and experts politically linked people and places around the world through food illuminates both America's role in the world during the mid-twentieth century and sheds light on contemporary food problems.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Special Subcommittee to Investigate Food Shortages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Canned foods industry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013853886

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Surplus Canned Fruits and Vegetables--surplus Poultry and Poultry Products (Producers Request Government to Include Surplus Canned Vegetables and Fruits and Poultry for Foreign Relief) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Special Subcommittee to Investigate Food Shortages Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309259361

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Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach by Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats Pdf

Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just the tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities. The IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation's food supply. The workshop explored existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation's food supply through the use of a "One Health" approach to food safety. Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the recommendations for future related workshops.

Author : Lester R. Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393344530

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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown Pdf

Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. The world food situation is deteriorating. Grain stocks have dropped to a dangerously low level. The World Food Price Index has doubled in one decade. The ranks of the hungry are expanding; political unrest is spreading. On the demand side of the food equation, there will be 219,000 people at the dinner table tonight who were not there last night. And some 3 billion increasingly affluent people are moving up the food chain, consuming grain-intensive livestock and poultry products. At the same time, water shortages and heat waves are making it more difficult for farmers to keep pace with demand. As grain-exporting countries ban exports to keep their food prices down, importing countries are panicking. In response, they are buying large tracts of land in other countries to grow food for themselves. The land rush is on. Could food become the weak link for us as it was for so many earlier civilizations? Lester Brown, one of the leading environmentalists of our time, explains why world food supplies are tightening and tells what we need to do about it.