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World Food Problem

Autor David B. Grigg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2002
In The World Food Problem, updadted in every respect since its first edition in 1985, David Grigg provides a full account of who is hungry, where and why.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631176336
ISBN-10: 0631176330
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

students of human geography taking courses in hunger and poverty, third world development, population studies and agriculture

Notă biografică

David Grigg is among the world's leading historians of agriculture in both social and economic contexts. His previous books include The Harshlands, The Agricultural Systems of the World, Population Growth and Agricultural Change, English Agriculture, and The Transformation of Agriculture.

Cuprins

List of Figures viii
List of tables x
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction 1
2 The extent of hunger 5
3 A short history of hunger 30
4 Population and poverty 55
5 The growth of world food output 73
6 The expansion of the world's arable land 90
7 Agricultural development in the developed countries since 1945 115
8 Tropical Africa 132
9 Latin America 170
10 Asia 200
11 Trade and aid 236
12 Conclusions 256
Noted 267
Index 299

Descriere

The only text not to focus exclusively on the Third World. Second edition of a clasic text, completely revised and updated since first publication in 1985. The clearest and most up-to-date account of the supply of and demand for the world's food. The only text not to focus exclusively on the Third World.