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Author Bne Saad, Majda.

Title The global hunger crisis : tackling food insecurity in Developing countries / Majda Bne Saad.

Publication Info. London : Pluto Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-278) and index.
Contents 1. Food Security -- What is Food Security? -- What is Food Insecurity? -- Measuring Chronic Food Insecurity -- Transitory Food Insecurity -- Domestic Food Prices -- Household Purchasing Power -- 2. Famine -- Famine Mortality 1903-2011 -- Defining Famine -- Operational Definition of Famine -- Theories of Famine -- Pre-modern Theories: Supply-side Factors -- Modern Theories: Demand-side Factors -- Postmodern Theory: The Failure of Accountability -- 3. The World Food System: Challenges and Options -- What is the World Food System? -- The Productionist Paradigm -- The Life Sciences Integrated Paradigm -- The Ecologically Integrated Paradigm -- 4. Peasant Farming: Current and Future Challenges -- The Peasants' World -- Defining 'Peasant' and Peasant Societies -- World Capitalism and Agrarian Change -- Peasants and the Three Worlds of Agriculture -- Agricultural Contribution to Economic Development.
Investment and Economic Incentives for Agricultural Growth -- Agricultural Policies in Agriculture-based Developing Countries -- Peasant Farming: Constraints and Challenges -- 5. Access to Land -- Pressure for Land Reform -- Instruments of State-Led Land Reform -- Market-Led Agrarian Reform (MLAR) -- Steps towards Successful Land Reform -- Gender and Land Reform -- Land Grabbing: A New Challenge -- 6. Rural Labour Markets -- Rural Labour Markets: An Overview -- The Economics of the Household Labour Allocation Model -- Factors Affecting Labour Supply -- Factors Affecting Demand for Labour -- Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment -- 7. Rural Financial Services and the Issue of Sustainability -- Rural Credit Markets -- Credit for Agricultural Development and Poverty Reduction -- The Evolution of Rural Credit Markets -- Do Microfinance Institutions Help the Poor? -- Second Generation MFIs.
Non-Governmental Development Organisations and MFIs: The Dilemmas -- The Sustainability of Microfinance Operations -- Gender and Credit Policy -- MFIs and the Global Financial Crisis -- 8. Water for Livelihoods -- World Waters: An Overview -- Shared Water Resources: The Political and Legal Dimensions -- State Cooperation -- Water for Livelihoods: Social, Economic and Environmental Constraints -- The Environmental Costs of Intensive and Extensive Farming -- Choices in Irrigation Technology: Shaping the Future -- Governance in Irrigation Systems -- Irrigation Policy and Gender -- Irrigation in a Resource-poor Environment -- 9. Gender and Food Security: Invisibility Revisited -- Invisible Rural Women -- Data Deficiencies: Maintaining Rural Women Invisibility -- The Feminisation of Agriculture -- Rural Women's Participation in Decision Making -- Policy Approaches to Women in Development -- Gender Mainstreaming -- Gender and the Millennium Development Goals.
Note continued: Gender and Food Security: Policy Implications -- Rural Women's Voice -- 10. Conclusion: Food Security in Perspective -- Economic and Agricultural Growth in Africa -- Net Food Importing Countries and World Trade -- Aid to Agriculture -- Future Challenges (1): Climate Change -- Future Challenges (2): Biofuels -- Conclusion.
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Subject Food supply -- Developing countries.
Food supply.
Developing countries.
Food security -- Developing countries.
Food security.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bne Saad, Majda. Global hunger crisis. London : Pluto Press, 2013 9780745330686 (OCoLC)810117723
ISBN 9781849648608 electronic book
1849648603 electronic book
9780745330686
0745330681
9780745330679
0745330673