Niek Koning (Netherlands Wageningen University)

Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth

Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a political-economic approach and insights from human ecology, this volume analyses the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth in the past, present and future. It shows how the evolution of food security in different regions has been influenced by their farm policy choices, and how this relates to debates on food security and economic growth and with international economic policies.

Produktdetails

• Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781138803053
• ISBN-10: 1138803057
• Artikelnr.: 43028295

Autorenporträt

Niek Koning is an Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Development and Food Security, and Emeritus Assistant Professor with the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. A Long View 3. Growth and Crisis in the Pre-Fossil Era
4. The Big Change 5. How Other Regions Coped 6. Agriculture and the Welfare
State: Emerging Problems 7. The Neoliberal Decades 8. Looking into the
Crystal Ball 9. Where there's a Will, there's a Way