The World Food Problem / Edition 2

by David Grigg

Overview

In The World Food Problem, updadted in every respect since its first edition in 1985, David Grigg provides a full account of who is hungry, where and why.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631176336
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/31/1994
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

David Grigg is among the world's leading historians of agriculture in both social and economic contexts. His previous books include The Harshlands, The Agricultural Systems of the World, Population Growth and Agricultural Change, English Agriculture, and The Transformation of Agriculture.

Table of Contents

List of Figures viii

List of tables x

Acknowledgments xv

1 Introduction 1

2 The extent of hunger 5

3 A short history of hunger 30

4 Population and poverty 55

5 The growth of world food output 73

6 The expansion of the world’s arable land 90

7 Agricultural development in the developed countries since 1945 115

8 Tropical Africa 132

9 Latin America 170

10 Asia 200

11 Trade and aid 236

12 Conclusions 256

Noted 267

Index 299

Editorial Reviews

About the first edition:
"Ought to become a classic textbook and undoubtedly is a monument of scholarly synthesis." Geographical Magazine

"The book promotes its own eminent claims to be on an accessible shelf of every senior school and university library." Geography

"An excellent addition to the literature ... The book is easy to read and would be a useful textbook for courses on hunger and poverty, third-world development, and agricultural geography." Geographical Review

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