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Beskrivning
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.
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.
Recensioner i media
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
Innehållsförteckning
List of Figures viiiList of tables xAcknowledgments xv1 Introduction 12 The extent of hunger 53 A short history of hunger 304 Population and poverty 555 The growth of world food output 736 The expansion of the world’s arable land 907 Agricultural development in the developed countries since 1945 1158 Tropical Africa 1329 Latin America 17010 Asia 20011 Trade and aid 23612 Conclusions 256Noted 267Index 299
