Competitiveness of Global Agriculture Policy Lessons for Food Securi
The book combines food security and agricultural competitiveness issues and treat them together. It starts with definitions and evolution of both concepts, followed by reviews on global and regional food security challenges. The book identifies global agr
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mpetitiveness of Global Agriculture Policy Lessons for Food Security
Competitiveness of Global Agriculture
Attila Jambor • Suresh Babu
Competitiveness of Global Agriculture Policy Lessons for Food Security
Attila Jambor Corvinus University of Budapest Budapest, Hungary
Suresh Babu International Food Policy Research Institute Washington, DC, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-44874-9 ISBN 978-3-319-44876-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44876-3
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Preface
Food security and competitiveness of agriculture are issues central to agricultural and food policy-making in the twenty-first century all over the world. Although developed and developing countries are at different stages of contributing to global and local food security and their competitiveness in agriculture varies, one of their common and urging challenges is to feed their increasing population with finite natural resources. The issues, constraints, and challenges relating to competitiveness of their agriculture and their ability to feed their population and beyond have not been fully studied and understood in the context of policy-making at the national and global levels. This book attempts to fill this major knowledge gap. This book explores the linkages between the competiveness of agriculture sectors and the food security of nations. It starts with definitions and evolution of the concepts of food security and agricultural competiveness. Then it provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of their linkages. The book reviews global and regional food security challenges and groups countries all over the world according to their ability to feed their populati
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