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Zusatztext This is a very timely and insightful book that provides the collective thinking of a generation of eminent scholars. The book opens up the black box of the political economy process, and shows us how price policy is actually formulated. Informationen zum Autor PPer Pinstrup-Andersen is Graduate School Professor at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen University. He is Chairman of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security (HLPE) and Vice chairman of the World Economic Forum's Council on food Security. He is past Chairman of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Past President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He has served as the International Food Policy Research Institute's Director General, as an economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, and as distinguished professor at Wageningen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate and the recipient of several awards for his research. His publications include more than 450 books, articles, and papers. Klappentext Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments responded as they did to the global food crisis of 2007-09 and what their decisions can teach us about policy interventions. Zusammenfassung Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments responded as they did to the global food crisis of 2007-09 and what their decisions can teach us about policy interventions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: An Overview 1: Per Pinstrup-Andersen: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: An Overview Part II: Syntheses of Findings from Country Studies 2: Kenneth Baltzer: International to Domestic Price Transmission in 14 Developing Countries during the 2007-08 Food Crisis 3: Shane Bryan: A Cacophony of Policy Responses: Evidence from 14 Countries during the 2007-08 Food Price Crisis 4: Suresh Babu: Policy Processes and Food Price Crises: A Framework for Analysis and Lessons from Country Studies 5: Derrill D. Watson II: A Political Economy Synthesis of Food Price Policy in 14 Countries Part III: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low-Income Landlocked Countries 6: Assefa Admassie: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Ethiopia 7: Ephraim W. Chirwa and Blessings Chinsinga: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Malawi 8: Antony Chapoto: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Zambia Part IV: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low-Income Countries with Limited Dependence on Food Imports 9: Jonathan Makau Nzuma: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Kenya 10: Virgulino Nhate, Claudio Massingarela, and Vincenzo Salvucci: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Mozambique Part V: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low and Middle-Income Countries Heavily Dependent on Food Import 11: Selim Raihan: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Bangladesh 12: Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Egypt 13: Aderibigbe S. Olomola: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Nigeria 14: Danielle Resnick: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Senegal Part VI: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Large Exporters 15: Nguyen Manh Hai and Theodore Talbot: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Vietnam 16: Kavery Ganguly and Ashok Gulati: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in India 17: Jikun Huang, Jun Yang, and Scott Rozelle: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in China
