Routledge Library Editions: Food Supply and Policy
About the Book Series
Reissuing works originally published between 1952 and 1999, this set provides a wide spread of scholarship on issues surrounding food provision throughout the world. The earlier books look at import and export changes during times when previous trade routes and options changed while later ones mostly consider food assistance policies, poverty and famine, and welfare. These books cover third world studies, economics, anthropology, politics, environment, agriculture and population studies as well as food and nutrition.
African Food Systems in Crisis: Part One: Microperspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Solomon H Katz
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1990. Produced by the Task Force on African Famine of the American Anthropological Association, this is the first of a multi-part project dealing with the long-term and ongoing food crisis in Africa primarily at the level of local production-the microperspective. It offers a...
African Food Systems in Crisis: Part Two: Contending with Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Solomon H Katz
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1991. Commissioned by the Task Force on African Famine of the American Anthropological Association, this the second part of a project examining the causes of food system failure in Africa and the effects of attempts to remedy the situation. It evaluates the ...
Britain's Food Supplies
1st Edition
By K. G. Fenelon
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1952. In this fascinating book that examines the statistics, the term food supplies is interpreted in a wide sense and it deals among other matters with such subjects as supplies from home agriculture and from overseas; food consumption; controls, rationing and price ...
Food Supplies in the Aftermath of World War II
1st Edition
By Edith Hirsch
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1993. This study was written in 1946 having been commissioned by a large corporation in the food industry. The insights from this agricultural economics perspective even now are highly interesting. At the time there was real concern over food shortage and the UN and US ...
Hunger and Food Assistance Policy in the United States
1st Edition
By Regina Galer-Unti
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1995. This study collects and analyses the results of hunger studies carried out in the United States during the 1980s, whether national, state or local. It also reviews the history and development of food assistance programs and policy. This is an unusual and fascinating ...
Politics and Poverty: A Critique of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
1st Edition
By John Abbott
March 01, 2021
Originally published in 1992. At its foundation FAO was conceived as an organization that would bring together health and agriculture. It would manage the world’s food output to greater advantage and improve the well-being of its people. Almost a half-century on, FAO faced mounting criticism from ...
The Fight for Food: Factors Limiting Agricultural Production
1st Edition
By Harold E. Croxall, Lionel P. Smith
March 01, 2021
Originally published in 1984. Without technical Jargon or a mass of confusing statistics, this book describes a wide range of factors influencing agricultural productivity including weather, soil biology and ecology, and human, social, economic and political factors. The ways in which these factors...
The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoff Tansey, Joyce D'Silva
March 01, 2021
Originally published in 1999. The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health, the welfare of animals and the methods of farming, and the quality of the environment, go hand-in-hand. This theme continues along the lines that the present system is harmful to...
The Political Economy of African Famine
1st Edition
Edited
By R. E. Downs, Donna O. Kerner, Stephen P. Reyna
March 01, 2021
Originally published in 1991. This volume explores the combination of political and economic forces that influence different levels of food supply. The book begins with a discussion of famine theories, ranging from cultural ecology to neo-Marxism. Following this survey is a series of essays by ...
The Politics of Hunger: The Global Food System
1st Edition
By John W. Warnock
March 01, 2021
Originally published in 1987. This important and provocative book explains the persistence of hunger, poverty, and the lack of balanced development in many countries and the central role of agriculture in economic development. Most theories of agricultural development are based on the experiences ...
United States Foreign Economic Policy-making: An Analysis of the Use of Food Resources 1972-1980
1st Edition
By Kenneth A. Gold
March 01, 2021
This book develops an analytical framework for understanding United States foreign agricultural policy through a "state interest" approach, and describes and analyses seven cases of food policy decisions through this perspective which shows that decision makers sought on most occasions to utilise ...
Urban Food Marketing and Third World Rural Development: The Structure of Producer-Seller Markets
1st Edition
By T. Scarlett Epstein
March 01, 2021
Originally published in 1982. This book explores the nature of food marketing in Third World countries. Economic development invariably involves a transition from the traditional subsistence and/or barter economics to increasing participation in cash transactions. In many less developed countries ...