Food Security
Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness
Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, and Benjamin Davis
Author Information
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis is a Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He is a PhD from the University of Rochester and worked for IGIDR (Mumbai), ICRIER (New Delhi) and The Exim Bank of India. His research interests include international economics, development economics and financial economics.
Shabd S. Acharya is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, Vice President of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and President of the Agricultural Economics Research Association of India. He is published extensively in agricultural economics, agricultural marketing, and agricultural development and policy.
Benjamin Davis is an economist with the Agricultural Development Economics Division of the FAO. His research focuses on the interplay between off farm activities, migration, food security and rural development.
Contributors:
Shabd S. Acharya, Honorary Professor at IDS-Jaipur, Vice President of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and President of the Agricultural Economics Research Association of India
Mehmet Arda, Galatasaray University, Istanbul
Kathleen Beegle, Development Research Group of the World Bank
Calogero Carletto, Development Research Group of the World Bank
Ramesh Chand, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi
Andrew Charman, Director, Sustainable Livelihood Consultants
Benjamin Davis, Agricultural Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organisation, UN
Indranil Dutta, Department of Economics, University of Sheffield
Samuel Gayi, Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa, UNCTAD, Geneva
Nilabja Ghosh, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, UNU-WIDER
Craig Gundersen, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University
Gautam Hazarika, University of Texas at Brownsville
Michael Herrmann, UNCTAD, Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes (ALDC)
James Hodge, Genesis Analytics
Marco Knowles, Food and Agriculture Organisation, UN
Christian Romer Løvendal, Agriculture and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organisation, UN
J. V. Meenakshi, HarvestPlus, International Food Policy Research Institute
Mauro Migotto, OECD
Vasco Molini, Centre for World Food Studies, Amsterdam
George Rapsomanikis, Trade and Policy Service, Food and Agriculture Organisation, Trade and Markets Division
Alexander Sarris, Food and Agriculture Organisation, Trade and Markets Division
Brinda Viswanathan, Madras School of Economics