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.

• 1. Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness ; PART I ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT AND THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOOD SECURITY ; 2. Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy ; 3. Measures of Food Insecurity at the Household Level ; 4. Tomorrow's Hunger: A Framework for Analysing Vulnerability to Food Insecurity ; 5. Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Pakistan ; 6. Changing Pattern of Undernutrition in India: A Comparative Analysis across Regions ; 7. Food Security in Vietnam during the 1990s: The Empirical Evidence ; 8. Measuring the Efficacy of Targeted Schemes: Public Works Programmes in India ; 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 ; 10. Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries: Economic Linkages and Policy Responses ; 11. An Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in the SADC region ; 12. International Trade, Food Security and Response to WTO in South Asian Countries ; 13. Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa? ; 14. Food Retailing, Supermarkets, and Food Security: Highlights from Latin America

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