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Useful for understanding implications of the new trade regime.
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What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy?
Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to end poverty. The emergence of the WTO and the freeing of agricultural trade, for example, have serious implications for hunger and food security in many countries, yet this is an area that is relatively understudied. This book aims to fill this gap by providing a significant collection of essays from mainstream academia and prominent international organizations working for food security. Examining food security across regions, the book tackles food security at three distinct levels-national, household, and individual. Other topics included are: attempts to improve measurement tools; the applications of existing tools for empirical analysis using household data, and; the impact of trade openness on national food security.
Contents
1. Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness ; PART I ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT AND THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOOD SECURITY ; 2. Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy ; 3. Measures of Food Insecurity at the Household Level ; 4. Tomorrow's Hunger: A Framework for Analysing Vulnerability to Food Insecurity ; 5. Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Pakistan ; 6. Changing Pattern of Undernutrition in India: A Comparative Analysis across Regions ; 7. Food Security in Vietnam during the 1990s: The Empirical Evidence ; 8. Measuring the Efficacy of Targeted Schemes: Public Works Programmes in India ; PART II TRADE OPENNESS, THE WTO, AND FOOD SECURITY ; 9. The Impact of Domestic and International Commodity Price Volatility on Agricultural Income Instability in Ghana, Vietnam and Peru ; 10. Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries: Economic Linkages and Policy Responses ; 11. An Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in the SADC region ; 12. International Trade, Food Security and Response to WTO in South Asian Countries ; 13. Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa? ; 14. Food Retailing, Supermarkets, and Food Security: Highlights from Latin America
