The World Food Outlook

by Merlinda D. Ingco, Donald O. Mitchell, Ronald C. Duncan

Book Overview

Modern day Malthusians warn that Malthus will ultimately be right: the world will be less and less able to feed itself as populations keep expanding and crop yields seem to have reached a peak. The authors of this volume believe that this pessimism is misplaced, and that there is in fact no worldwide food crisis. On the contrary, they show that the world food situation has improved dramatically over the past three decades: prices of agricultural commodities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521589843
• ISBN13: 9780521589840
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"