Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers - Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research

In the mid-1970s it looked like Thomas Malthus’s predictions of runaway population growth and consequent food shortages and famine were coming true. Famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia had killed hundreds of thousands of people, poor weather had reduced harvests in a number of countries, and world ce...

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Autores principales: von Braun, Joachim, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158150
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description In the mid-1970s it looked like Thomas Malthus’s predictions of runaway population growth and consequent food shortages and famine were coming true. Famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia had killed hundreds of thousands of people, poor weather had reduced harvests in a number of countries, and world cereal stocks were perilously low. There was talk of food “triage,” in which food-abundant countries would decide who should get food and who should not, thereby dooming some to death. With the new level of alarm over the world’s food supplies, a host of meetings were held and organizations created to search for solutions. One of these organizations was IFPRI.
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spelling CGSpace1581502025-11-06T04:12:37Z Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers - Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research von Braun, Joachim Pandya-Lorch, Rajul agriculture economic aspects developing countries food supply food policies nutrition policies poverty In the mid-1970s it looked like Thomas Malthus’s predictions of runaway population growth and consequent food shortages and famine were coming true. Famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia had killed hundreds of thousands of people, poor weather had reduced harvests in a number of countries, and world cereal stocks were perilously low. There was talk of food “triage,” in which food-abundant countries would decide who should get food and who should not, thereby dooming some to death. With the new level of alarm over the world’s food supplies, a host of meetings were held and organizations created to search for solutions. One of these organizations was IFPRI. 2005 2024-10-24T19:20:32Z 2024-10-24T19:20:32Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158150 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute von Braun, Joachim; and Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, eds. 2005. Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers: Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158150
spellingShingle agriculture
economic aspects
developing countries
food supply
food policies
nutrition policies
poverty
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Pandya-Lorch, Rajul
Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers - Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research
title Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers - Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research
title_full Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers - Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research
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title_short Food policy for the poor: Expanding the research frontiers - Highlights from 30 years of IFPRI research
title_sort food policy for the poor expanding the research frontiers highlights from 30 years of ifpri research
topic agriculture
economic aspects
developing countries
food supply
food policies
nutrition policies
poverty
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