The global food system and related government policies are in disarray. In response to expected increasing food prices and greater food price volatility, national governments are pursuing a variety of policies. Some policies amplify price fluctuations while others attempt to prohibit price signals...

This book offers a comprehensive picture of the policy issues the world must address if it is to overcome poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation, and points the way to the policy actions required to meet these goals. Issues addressed by the book's 41 chapters include: food security; dietary ...

This chapter examines the extent and depth of food insecurity, child malnutrition, and poverty in the developing world at the turn of the 21st century. Policies to increase food production and productivity and improve access to food are outlined.

This chapter examines the prospects for food demand and supply in the 21st century, highlighting the incidence of food insecurity and child malnutrition.

Fish provides more than 4.5 billion people with at least 15% of their average per capita intake of animal protein. Fish's unique nutritional properties make it also essential to the health of billions of consumers in both developed and developing countries. Fish is one of the most efficient...

This book describes how innovative technologies and sound policies can help improve food supplies as well as access to food. Contributors to this book show how soil degradation, biotechnology, and other resources and technologies might affect the future supply of food, as well as how poverty,...

This paper focuses on the global challenge of achieving food security. Sections discuss: past, current and future food security; the definition of food security; the relationship between food security and sustainability; policy priorities; and sustainable food security and the global food crisis.

This book focuses on the potential benefits and costs of genetically modified (GM) crops for developing countries. It reviews the basic issues and discusses the potential that such crops have for addressing the great needs of poor and undernourished peoples. It explains why increased agricultural...

This chapter describes South Asia's food security situation and outlook to 2020, and identifies 9 driving forces that must be taken into account in the design and implementation of food security policies and institutions: (1) globalization, including trade liberalization; (2) technological changes; ...