This book chapter identifies a set of key contemporary food system-related issues that are likely to influence the nutrition of current and future generations. It also examines the pathways through which such influence may take place and how government interventions and policies may guide the...
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.
ISBN
2014 CABI (H ISBN 9781780642994)
Type
Book chapter; Conference paper
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...
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, Melbourne, Australia
Citation
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2014, 58, 4, pp 504-518
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 ...
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
The unfinished agenda: perspectives on overcoming hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation, 2001, pp 301 pp.
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.
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.; Pandya-Lorch, R.; Rosegrant, M. W.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
The unfinished agenda: perspectives on overcoming hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation, 2001, pp 7-17
This chapter examines the prospects for food demand and supply in the 21st century, highlighting the incidence of food insecurity and child malnutrition.
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
Who will be fed in the 21st century? Challenges for science and policy, 2001, pp 3-14
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...
Author(s)
Béné, C.; Barange, M.; Subasinghe, R.; Pinstrup-Andersen, P.; Merino, G.; Hemre, G. I.; Williams, M.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2015, 7, 2, pp 261-274
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,...
Author(s)
Wiebe, K.; Ballenger, N.; Pinstrup-Andersen, P.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
Who will be fed in the 21st century? Challenges for science and policy, 2001, pp 102 pp.
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.
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.; Herforth, A.
Publisher
Heldref Publications, Washington, USA
Citation
Environment (Washington), 2008, 50, 5, pp 48-60
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...
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.; Schiøler, E.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA
Citation
Seeds of contention: world hunger and the global controversy over GM crops, 2000, pp xi + 164 pp.
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; ...
Author(s)
Pinstrup-Andersen, P.
Publisher
Food Products Press, Binghamton, USA
Citation
Economic reforms and food security: the impact of trade and technology in South Asia, 2005, pp 41-60