World Food in the 1990's: Production, Trade, And AIDS

In this book contributors from various scholarly backgrounds interpret past trends in world food trade, aid and security and propose new policy options for the 1990s. They address the problems facing the distribution of global economic growth and trade between industrialized and developing countries while exploring the effects that supply, demand, assistance programmes, foreign aid and other policy variables have on the evolving world trade and food system. This book should prove of interest to a range of scholars and policymakers dealing with food, health, human rights, Third World development, agricultural economics, international political economy and trade policy. This book is based on materials prepared for a four-session workshop held September 20-22, 1989 in Washington, D.C. It explores: the international economic and policy environments anticipated for the 1990's; the impacts that multilateral liberalization of agricultural trade and domestic policy reforms in industrial and developing countries have on food production, and how the U.S.'s foreign economic assistance should be adapted to changes in the world food system and the economic environments for the 1990's This book explores the effects that supply, demand, assistance programmes, foreign aid and other policy variables have on the evolving world trade and food system. It should prove of interest to anyone dealing with food, health, human rights, Third World development, agricultural economics, international political economy and trade policy. There is considerable disagreement about whether trends in world food supply are favourable or not, and in this book contributors interpret past trends in world food trade, aid and security and propose new policy options for the 1990s.