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Legal Perspectives on Security Institutions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 439

Legal Perspectives on Security Institutions

  • Categories: Law

Explores the tensions that arise when institutions address contemporary security threats.

Trade Policy and Food Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Trade Policy and Food Security

Increased trade integration holds considerable potential to stabilize food prices, boost returns to farmers, and reduce the prices faced by consumers. This book explores the effects of food price changes on economic welfare in developing countries, and how these can be mitigated through appropriate national policies at the border.

Food Security and Scarcity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Food Security and Scarcity

In countries that have managed to confront and cope with the challenges of food insecurity over the past two centuries, markets have done the heavy lifting. Markets serve as the arena for allocating society's scarce resources to meet the virtually unlimited needs and desires of consumers: no other mechanism can efficiently signal fluctuations in scarcity and abundance, the cost of labor, or the value of commodities. But markets fail at tasks that society regards as important; thus, governments have had to intervene to stabilize the economic environment and provide essential public goods, such as transportation and communications networks, agricultural research and development, and access to ...

White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin

This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their food security and well-being. In the past four decades, rice has also become a commercial crop of great importance to Mekong farmers, augmenting but not replacing its role in securing their subsistence. This book is based on collaborative research to (a) compare the current situation and trajectories ...

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ... [1861-1866]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 728

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ... [1861-1866]

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1867
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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International Trade and Food Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

International Trade and Food Security

Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency. This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult for any single nation to guarantee adequate food production for itself. Through a collection of commissioned studies which draw upon the experience of leading experts and scholars in trade, investme...

Vox Lycei 1961-1962
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Vox Lycei 1961-1962

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Vox Lycei 1966-1967
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Vox Lycei 1966-1967

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Universal Food Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Universal Food Security

What would it take to achieve a genuinely food-secure world—one without hunger or malnutrition, where everyone gets to consume the right quantity and quality of food to live a healthy, active, and productive life? Bringing about such a future requires transforming how our food is grown, managed, and distributed. From production to consumption, food systems must be sustainable, halting environmental degradation and even repairing the damage we have previously done. This book provides an accessible guide to making healthy diets from sustainable food systems available to all. Glenn Denning bridges the divisive worlds of science, policy, and practice. He synthesizes the most relevant literatur...

Finance & Development, December 2010
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 61

Finance & Development, December 2010

This issue of F&D looks at the growing role of emerging markets. Analysis by the IMF's Ayhan Kose and Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University, argues that their economic ascendance will enable emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, and Russia to play a more significant part in global economic governance and take on more responsibility for economic and financial stability. And Vivek Arora and Athanasios Vamvakidis measure how China's economy is increasingly affecting the rest of the world not just its neighbors and main trading partners. In addition, F&D examines a variety of topics that are particularly relevant as the world struggles to shake off the crisis. Al...