Overview
- Presents new evidence about the role of ethics in government action to alleviate hunger
- Provides a unique perspective on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
- Shows how ethical and economic aspects can be integrated for better policies and reduced hunger
- Discusses how ethical perspectives may guide globalization for the benefit of poor people
- The only book in which scholars and practitioners analyze the interaction between ethics and economics in a cohesive, interdisciplinary manner
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 12)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
“Ethics, Hunger and Globalization” adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in action by governments, civil society, and the private sector to reduce poverty and hunger within the context of globalization. The book concludes that much of the rhetoric by policy makers is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the role of ethics in attempts to match action with rhetoric. The book also concludes that a better understanding of the values underlying both public and private sector action towards the alleviation of poverty and hunger would lead to more enlightened policies and greater success in attempts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The interaction between ethical, economic, and policy aspects is discussed and scholars and experienced practitioners from several disciplines suggest how such integration may be promoted.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Ethics, Hunger and Globalization is a very stimulating work because it adds an ethics dimension to the research and the public debate about hunger, poverty, and globalization. … I’m very pleased with the publication of this work. Bringing together in one volume contributions of many outstanding scholars … to discuss what action is needed for implementing ethics into the policy of governments, civil society, and the private sector to alleviate poverty and hunger, is a devil of a job. It was worthwhile to do this." (Johan De Tanvernier, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 22, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Per Pinstrup-Andersen:
Past-President, American Agricultural Economics Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Association of Agricultural Economists;
Peter Sandøe:
President, European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics
International Society for Applied Ethology
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics, Hunger and Globalization
Book Subtitle: In Search of Appropriate Policies
Editors: Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Peter Sandøe
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6131-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6130-1Published: 02 August 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7546-8Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6131-8Published: 20 July 2007
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 334
Topics: Ethics, Economics, general, Economic Policy, Social Policy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences