Handbook on Food

Edited by the late Raghbendra Jha, formerly Emeritus Professor of Economics, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Australian National University, Australia, Raghav Gaiha, Visiting Scientist, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University and Anil B. Deolalikar, University of California, Riverside, US

• Contents:Preface1. Overview: Handbook on Food Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil B. Deolalikar2. The Political Economy of Food Security: A Behavioral PerspectiveC. Peter Timmer3. Shocks to the System: Monitoring Food Security in a Volatile World Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan4. Food Price Inflation, Growth and PovertyShikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan5. Transmission of Global Food Prices, Supply Response and Impacts on the PoorDavid Dawe6. The Financialization of Food Commodity MarketsChristopher L. Gilbert and Simone Pfuderer7. Financialization of Food Commodity Markets, Price Surge and Volatility: New Evidence Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi S. Imai and Ganesh Thapa8. Dietary Shift and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSSRaghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi S. Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni & Ganesh Thapa9. Dietary Change, Nutrient Transition and Food Security in Fast Growing China Jing You10. Poverty-Nutrition TrapsRaghbendra Jha, Katsushi S. Imai & Raghav Gaiha11. The Political Economy of Dietary Allowances C. Sathyamala12. Economic Prosperity and Non-Communicable Disease: Understanding the LinkagesAjay Mahal and Lainie Sutton13. Trade Food and WelfareAlexander Sarris14. Enhancing Food Security: Agricultural Productivity, International Trade and Poverty ReductionPeter Warr15. Best-fit Options of Crop Staples for Food Security: Productivity, Nutrition and SustainabilityJill E. Gready 16. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture and Their MitigationFrancesco N. Tubiello and Josef Schmidhuber17. Land Degradation, Water Scarcity and SustainabilityManab Das, Debashish Goswami, Anshuman and Alok Adheleya18. Viability of Small-Scale Farms in AsiaKeijiro Otsuka19. Food Entitlements, Subsidies and Right to Food: A South Asian PerspectiveSimrit Kaur20. Global Middle Class and Dietary Patterns: A Sociological PerspectiveVani S. KulkarniIndex

‘The Handbook on Food: Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security makes a significant contribution to academic, policy and public interests in food security. It does not avoid the hard questions, proposes much-needed research direction and policy reform, and most importantly identifies crucial links between food security, poverty, trade, globalisation, environmental sustainability, climate change and the politics that create a complex space. This comprehensive and courageous book is a must-read for those interested in the issue of food security now and in the future.’