Food Security and Food Inventories in Developing Countries

by Peter Berck and Bigman Berck

This volume reviews the food problem in developing countries and evaluates policy alternatives both at the macro (economy-wide) level and at the micro (individual farmer and household) level. The issues at the macro level include definitions of food security, mapping policy alternatives over food vis-a-vis other national objectives, modelling food security policies, and quantifying the effects of policy on the various sectors of the economy. At the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851988105
• ISBN13: 9780851988108
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages