Title:	Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security
Authors:	Anderson, Kym Christopher   Barrett
Keywords:	Agricultural Trade
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	Aims of the Series Agricultural and food policy lies at the heart of many pressing societal issues today and economic analysis occupies a privileged place in contemporary policy debates. The global food price crises of 2008 and 2010 underscored the mounting challenge of meeting rapidly increasing food demand in the face of increasingly scarce land and water resources. The twin scourges of poverty and hunger quickly resurfaced as high-level policy concerns, partly because of food price riots and mounting insurgencies fomented by contestation over rural resources. Meanwhile, agriculture's heavy footprint on natural resources motivates heated environmental debates about climate change, water and land use, biodiversity conservation and chemical pollution. Agricultural technological change, especially associated with the introduction of genetically modifi ed organisms, also introduces unprec- edented questions surrounding intellectual property rights and consumer preferences regarding credence (i.e., unobservable by consumers) char- acteristics. Similar new agricultural commodity consumer behavior issues have emerged around issues such as local foods, organic agriculture and fair trade, even motivating broader social movements. Public health issues related to obesity, food safety, and zoonotic diseases such as avian or swine fl u also have roots deep in agricultural and food policy. And agriculture has become inextricably linked to energy policy through biofuels production. Meanwhile, the agricultural and food economy is changing rapidly throughout the world, marked by continued consolidation at both farm production and retail distribution levels, elongating value chains, expanding interna- tional trade, and growing reliance on immigrant labor and information and communications technologies. In summary, a vast range of topics of wide- spread popular and scholarly interest revolve around agricultural and food policy and economics. The extensive list of prospective authors, titles and topics offers a partial, illustrative listing. Thus a series of topical volumes, featuring cutting-edge economic analysis by leading scholars has consider- able prospect for both attracting attention and garnering sales. This series will feature leading global experts writing accessible summaries of the best current economics and related research on topics of widespread interest to both scholarly and lay audiences.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/46707
ISBN:	978-1-137-46925-0
Appears in Collections:	Food Security Studies

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