IFPRI/JHU Book: Who Will Be Fed in the 21st Century? Challenges for Science and Policy
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WHO WILL BE FED IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
Challenges for Science and Policy

Front Cover Image Keith Wiebe, Nicole Ballenger and Per Pinstrup-Andersen
120 pages / 2001
$9.95 paperback / ISBN 0-89629-704-7
Pricing for U.S. only. Foreign pricing also available.
Published by IFPRI and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Global food production has more than doubled over the past 40 years, growing faster than population, and will likely keep pace in the 21st century. Yet today one-eighth of the world's people lack secure access to the food they need to live active and healthy lives. This volume describes how together innovative technologies and sound policies can help close the global food gap -- the gap between demand for and supply of food.

Although markets will continue to supply sufficient food to those with money to spend, getting food to the poor will require that government policies and investments supplement the operation of markets in three critical areas: protecting the natural resources on which agriculture depends; focusing the benefits of agricultural research, including biotechnology, on the needs of small farmers in developing countries; and ensuring that access to food, resources, and income-generating opportunities is equitable and secure.

Contributors to this book show how soil degradation, biotechnology, and other resources and technologies might affect the future supply of food, as well as how poverty, conflict, and gender roles might affect demand. They also consider the roles that institutions must play in meeting the challenge of global hunger. Finally, they outline the policy priorities required to achieve a food-secure world in the 21st century.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Keith Wiebe is an economist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, Washington, D.C. Nicole Ballenger is assistant administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. Per Pinstrup-Andersen is director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.

Contributors: Bruce Alberts, Nicole Ballenger, Donald Duvick, Craig Gundersen, Eileen Kennedy, Rattan Lal, Alex F. McCalla, Susan R. McCouch, Ellen Messer, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, G. Edward Schuh, and Keith Wiebe.

International Food Policy Research Institute, with the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the American Agricultural Economics Association
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The Table of Contents and Chapter 1 of this book are available for download in PDF format.
    Table of Contents, Foreword and Acknowledgements
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    Chapter 1: Meeting Food Needs in the 21st Century: How Many and Who Will Be at Risk?

    (PDF 107K)
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