Food Security

Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness

Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, and Benjamin Davis

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Useful for understanding implications of the new trade regime
Looks at the issue from both the academic and institutional perspective
Provides original econometric and multi-level analysis
Includes a wealth of data and information to appeal to a broad range of readers

Food Security

Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness

Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, and Benjamin Davis

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Description

What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy?

Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to end poverty. The emergence of the WTO and the freeing of agricultural trade, for example, have serious implications for hunger and food security in many countries, yet this is an area that is relatively understudied. This book aims to fill this gap by providing a significant collection of essays from mainstream academia and prominent international organizations working for food security. Examining food security across regions, the book tackles food security at three distinct levels-national, household, and individual. Other topics included are: attempts to improve measurement tools; the applications of existing tools for empirical analysis using household data, and; the impact of trade openness on national food security.

Food Security

Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness

Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, and Benjamin Davis

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

1:Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya and Benjamin Davis
Part I Issues in Measurement and the Quantitative Analysis of Food Security
2:Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy, Mauro Migotto, Benjamin Davis, Calogero Carletto, and Kathleen Beegle
3:Measures of Food Insecurity at the Household Level, Indranil Dutta and Craig Gundersen
4:Tomorrow's Hunger: A Framework for Analysing Vulnerability to Food Insecurity, Christian Romer Løvendal and Marco Knowles
5:Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Pakistan, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Gautam Hazarika
6:Changing Pattern of Undernutrition in India: A Comparative Analysis across Regions, Brinda Viswanathan and J. V. Meenakshi
7:Food Security in Vietnam during the 1990s: The Empirical Evidence, Vasco Molini
8:Measuring the Efficacy of Targeted Schemes: Public Works Programmes in India, Nilabja Ghosh and Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis
Part II Trade Openness, the WTO, and Food Security
9:The Impact of Domestic and International Commodity Price Volatility on Agricultural Income Instability in Ghana, Vietnam and Peru, George Rapsomanikis and Alexander Sarris
10:Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries: Economic Linkages and Policy Responses, Michael Herrmann
11:An Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in the SADC region, James Hodge and Andrew Charman
12:International Trade, Food Security and Response to WTO in South Asian Countries, Ramesh Chand
13:Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa?, Samuel Gayi
14:Food Retailing, Supermarkets, and Food Security: Highlights from Latin America, Mehmet Arda

Food Security

Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness

Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, and Benjamin Davis

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Author Information

Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER, 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, and Benjamin Davis, Economist, Agricultural Development Economics Division of the FAO

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

Food Security

Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness

Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, and Benjamin Davis

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Reviews and Awards

"An apt and timely book as global food security today engages the attention of the world as never before." - The Hindu

"This wide ranging and forward looking set of studies is a must read for policy makers, analysts and students of food security. Containing contributions from leading thinkers and doers in multilateral and developing country organizations, the volume critically examines the relevance and accuracy of available and proposed tools to measure food security, and explores their application in several dynamic contexts. Important new insights are contributed towards a better understanding of the complex pathways through which trade liberalization and farm support programs impact on the nutritional status of the poor in developing countries. Highly recommended." - Dr. Peter Matlon, Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya

"This is a valuable contribution to the literature on food security for many reasons, including: it analyzes food security trends over time, which is relatively under-studied; food security is examined separately from poverty, which is unlike most previous studies; its focus on ex ante analysis of vulnerability to hunger and malnutrition, and the policy implications at the local, national and international levels is new and highly valuable for policy makers and practitioners; the analysis of the multiple and intertwined links between poverty, growth and hunger are clearly examined; the editors of the volume should be commended for including case studies undertaken by researchers from developing countries directly affected by food (in)security. The much too important local perspective is captured in this volume." - Dr. Gobind Nankani, President, Global Development Network, New Delhi, India