Research Catalog

Title

Food security and food inventories in developing countries / edited by P. Berck and D. Bigman.

Publication

Wallingford : CAB International, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Berck, Peter, 1950-
• Bigman, David.

Description

x, 381 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Agricultural prices > Developing countries
• Developing countries > Food supply
• Agriculture and state > Developing countries
• Food supply > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Multiple Dimensions of the World Food Problem / P. Berck and D. Bigman -- 2. New Ideas for Rural Poverty Alleviation in the 1990s / A. de Janvry and E. Sadoulet -- 3. A General Approach to the Assessment of Public Stocks / A. Santorum and J. Gray -- 4. A Model for Assessing Food-security Policy Alternatives / P. Abbott, P. Konandreas and M. Benirschka -- 5. Financial Considerations of Public-inventory Holdings / I. Adelman and P. Berck -- 6. Crop Insurance for Developing Countries / B.D. Wright and J.A. Hewitt -- 7. Optimization Analysis of Public-food Stocks / H.A. Love and S.T. Buccola -- 8. Applications of Multiple-criteria Decision-making Methodology in Food-policy Analysis / M.T. Tabucanon -- 9. Agricultural Prices: Third-world Dilemma / W. Peterson -- 10. Incentive Effects and the Fiscal Function of Agricultural Pricing Policies in the Philippines, Malaysia, and South Korea / R.M. Bautista.
• 11. Integration Between Export Compensation and Cereal Financing Under the IMF Cereal Financing Scheme / H. Ezekiel -- 12. Methods of Preservation and Loss Prevention of Grains in Storage / N. Paster -- 13. Design of Quality-control Methods for Grains in Developing Countries: A Simulation Analysis / S. Palaniswami -- 14. The Measurement of Food Insecurity: Chronic Undernutrition and Temporary Food Deficiencies / D. Bigman -- 15. Nutritional Considerations and Food Security in Case of Disaster / N. Trostler -- 16. Food Security and Stabilization of Rice Prices in Indonesia / F. Ellis -- 17. Managerial Issues in Public-inventory Holding: The Experience of the Food Corporation of India / U.R. Dhar -- 18. Management of India's Food Policy in the Coming Decade / U.R. Dhar -- 19. Technology and Agricultural Development in India / K.S. Parikh, S. Mahendra Dev and S. Deshpande -- 20. Managerial Issues in Food-inventory Holdings: The Sri Lankan Experience / G. Galagedera and L. Goonatilake.
• 21. Food Inventories at the Farm Level: The Experience in Kenya / D.K. Some, H.K. Maritim and F.J. Faraj -- 22. Mass Farming and Household Food Security: Part-time Farmers in Nsukka, Nigeria / C.C. Ukaegbu -- 23. How Private Enterprise Organized Agricultural Markets in Kenya / S. Jaffee.

ISBN

0851988105 :

LCCN

gb 93063767

OCLC

ocm29517924

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries