Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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