About this book series
Agricultural and food policy lies at the heart of many pressing societal issues today and economic analysis occupies a privileged place in contemporary policy debates. The global food price crises of 2008 and 2010 underscored the mounting challenge of meeting rapidly increasing food demand in the face of increasingly scarce land and water resources. The twin scourges of poverty and hunger quickly resurfaced as high-level policy concerns, partly because of food price riots and mounting insurgencies fomented by contestation over rural resources. Meanwhile, agriculture's heavy footprint on natural resources motivates heated environmental debates about climate change, water and land use, biodiversity conservation and chemical pollution. Agricultural technological change, especially associated with the introduction of genetically modified organisms, also introduces unprecedented questions surrounding intellectual property rights and consumer preferences regarding credence (i.e., unobservable by consumers) characteristics. Similar new agricultural commodity consumer behavior issues have emerged around issues such as local foods, organic agriculture and fair trade, even motivating broader social movements. Public health issues related to obesity, food safety, and zoonotic diseases such as avian or swine flu also have roots deep in agricultural and food policy. And agriculture has become inextricably linked to energy policy through biofuels production. Meanwhile, the agricultural and food economy is changing rapidly throughout the world, marked by continued consolidation at both farm production and retail distribution levels, elongating value chains, expanding international trade, and growing reliance on immigrant labor and information and communications technologies. In summary, a vast range of topics of widespread popular and scholarly interest revolve around agricultural and food policy and economics. The extensive list of prospective authors, titles and topics offers a partial, illustrative listing. Thus a series of topical volumes, featuring cutting-edge economic analysis by leading scholars has considerable prospect for both attracting attention and garnering sales. This series will feature leading global experts writing accessible summaries of the best current economics and related research on topics of widespread interest to both scholarly and lay audiences.
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- Electronic ISSN
- 2662-3897
- Print ISSN
- 2662-3889
- Series Editor
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- Christopher B. Barrett
Book titles in this series
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Mobile Phones and Development in Africa
Does the Evidence Meet the Hype?
- Authors:
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- Jenny C. Aker
- Joël Cariolle
- Copyright: 2023
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
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Food Security in the Caribbean
Historical Perspectives, Current Challenges, and Sustainable Solutions
- Authors:
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- Donovan Stanberry
- Lystra Fletcher-Paul
- Copyright: 2024
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- eBook
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Food Economics
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health
- Authors:
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- William A. Masters
- Amelia B. Finaret
- Open Access
- Copyright: 2024
This title belongs to the subseries: Palgrave Textbooks in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
Available Renditions
- Soft cover
- eBook
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The Future of India's Social Safety Nets
Focus, Form, and Scope
- Authors:
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- Andaleeb Rahman
- Prabhu Pingali
- Open Access
- Copyright: 2024
Available Renditions
- Hard cover
- Soft cover
- eBook
Abstracted and indexed in
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- Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)