Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries : Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty

The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools and have been designed to complement the textbook __Food Policy for Developing Countries__ by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world's food systems today. Volume I of the __Case Studies__ addresses policies related to health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction and Overview Part One. Human Health and Nutrition Policies Introduction Chapter One. HIV/AIDS, Gender, and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (3-1) Chapter Two. Food Security, Nutrition, and Health in Costa Rica's Indigenous Populations (3-2) Chapter Three. Iron Deficiency in Bangladesh (3-3) Chapter Four. The Policy Process of Increasing Micronutrient Programming in India (3-4) Chapter Five. Developing a National Food Fortification Program in the Dominican Republic (3-5) Chapter Six. Biofortification in a Food Chain Approach in West Africa (3-6) Chapter Seven. Biofortification as a Vitamin A Deficiency Intervention in Kenya (3-7) Chapter Eight. The Impact of Food for Education Programs in Bangladesh (3-8) Chapter Nine. The Nutrition Transition and Obesity in China (3-9) Chapter Ten. The Nutrition Transition in Chile (3-10) Chapter Eleven. Food Safety: The Case of Aflatoxin (3-11) Chapter Twelve. Salmonella Control in Denmark and the EU (3-12) Part Two Food Security, Consumption, and Demand Policies Introduction Chapter Thirteen. Food Advertising Policy in the United States ( 4-1) Chapter Fourteen. Surviving Shocks in Ethiopia: The Role of Social Protection for Food Security (4-2) Chapter Fifteen. Niger's Famine and the Role of Food Aid (4-3) Chapter Sixteen. Zambia and Genetically Modified Food Aid (4-4) Chapter Seventeen. Intrahousehold Allocation, Gender Relations, and Food Security in Developing Countries ( 4-5) Part Three Poverty Alleviation Policies Introduction Chapter Eighteen. PROGRESA: An Integrated Approach to Poverty Alleviation in Mexico (5-1) Chapter Nineteen. Income Disparity in China and Its Policy Implications (5-2) Chapter Twenty. Migration in Rural Burkina Faso (5-3) Part Four Ethical Aspects of Food Systems Introduction Chapter Twenty-one. Food Policy and Social Movements: Reflections on the Right to Food Campaign in India (11-1) The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools and have been designed to complement the textbook Food Policy for Developing Countries by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world's food systems today. Volume I of the Case Studies addresses policies related to health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty. | The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools and have been designed to complement the textbook Food Policy for Developing Countries by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world's food systems today. Volume I of the Case Studies addresses policies related to health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty.

The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions?

In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools and have been designed to complement the textbook Food Policy for Developing Countries by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world's food systems today.

Volume I of the Case Studies addresses policies related to health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty.

Volume II of the Case Studies addresses the issues of domestic policies for markets, production, and the environment.