Southgate Douglas DeWitt 1952

The world food economy / Douglas Southgate, Douglas H. Graham, and Luther Tweeten. - Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2007. - xiii, 402 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The demand side: how population growth and higher incomes affect food consumption -- The supply side: agricultural production and its determinants -- Aligning the consumption and production of food over time -- Agriculture and the environment -- Globalization and agriculture -- Agriculture and economic development -- Striving for food security -- A synopsis of regional trends in the global food economy -- Affluent nations -- Asia -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- The Middle East and North Africa -- Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The global food economy in the twenty-first century.

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Agriculture--Economic aspects
Food supply

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