John Williams

Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains

Improving Food Security

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines an array of different distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries. It outlines the underlying changes that are currently occurring, which will have an influence on the direction of future food supply chains, and provides some solutions to the current food security problem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415520720
• ISBN-10: 041552072X
• Artikelnr.: 34930580

Autorenporträt

John Williams is the Executive Director of the Australian Food Security Institute and a Fellow in Agribusiness at the Centre for Study of Rural Australia, Marcus Oldham College. He has rural science-economics degrees, a master in agribusiness, and a PhD on farmer decision-making psychology from The University of Melbourne.

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Inhaltsangabe

1. Commodity Supply Shocks. 2. Supply Chain Distortions - Intervention,
Subsidies, Protection. 3. Role of the Private Sector, Price, Competition
and Government. 4. Government Intervention by Importing Countries. 5. The
Rise and Fall of Commingled Commodity Handling. 6. Government Intervention
Failures in Exporting Countries. 7. Hoarding. 8. Corruption in the Food
Chain. 9. Food Aid Problems. 10. Importance of 'Trade' Markets and
Merchants. 11. Post Deregulation Issues. 12. Food Supply Chain Efficiency.