The Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition The Role of Food, Agriculture, and Targeted Policies

by Sahn, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780198733201
• ISBN10: 0198733208
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191047886
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

David E. Sahn, International Professor of Economics, Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Economics, Cornell University

David E. Sahn is an International Professor of Economics in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Economics at Cornell University. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan. His main academic interest is in identifying the solutions to poverty, malnutrition, and disease in developing countries, as well as the determinants of human capital and the role of education and skills in labor market and other social and demographic outcomes. In addition to teaching and mentoring of graduate students, he devotes considerable efforts to training and capacity building of research institutions in Africa and working with government officials and international organizations to integrate research findings into policy.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction, David E. Sahn
Part I: Nutrition Policy and Program
1. Using Height-For-Age Difference instead of Height-For-Age Z-Scores for the Meaningful Measurement of Catch-up Growth in Children Less Than 5 years of Age, Jef L. Leroy, Marie Ruel, Jean-Pierre Habicht, and Edward A Frongillo
2. Can Transfer Programs Be Made More Nutrition Sensitive?, Harold Alderman
3. The Micronutrient Deficiencies Challenge in African Food Systems, Christopher B. Barrett and Leah E. M. Bevis
4. The Internationalization of the Obesity Epidemic: The Case of Sugar-Sweetened Sodas, Malden C. Nesheim and Marion Nestle
5. Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Lessons from food Security and Nutrition Monitoring Systems During Food Crises, Suresh Chandra Babu
6. Access to Adequate Nutritious Food: New Indicators to Track Progress and Inform Action, Anna Herforth
Part II: Agricultural Development and Research and Technology Policy
7. Agriculture For Nutrition: Getting Policies Right, Prabhu Pingali, Katie Ricketts, and David E. Sahn
8. Is Small Farm Led Development Still a Relevant Strategy for Africa and Asia?, Peter Hazell
9. Agricultural R&D, Food Prices, Poverty, and Malnutrition redux, Julian M. Alston and Philip G. Pardey
10. Bioeconomy: Science and Technology Policy to Harmonize Biologization of Economies with Food Security, Joachim von Braun
11. Global and Local Food Systems in the GM Labeling Campaign, Tina Andersen Huey
12. Population Increases and Agricultural Productivity, Barbara Boyle Torrey and E. Fuller Torrey
Part III: Globalization and Political Economy
13. Ending Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025: Accelerating the Pace, Shenggen Fan, Tolulope Olofinbiyi, and Sinafikeh Gemessa
14. The Present Pattern of Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, Erik Thorbecke
15. Social Mobilization and Food Security: The Contribution of Organized Civil Society to Hunger Reduction Policies in Latin America, Marygold Walsh-Dilley and Wendy Wolford
16. Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in Vietnam, Andy McKay and Finn Tarp
17. Independence Or Influence: Tradeoffs in Development Policy Research, Roger Slade and Mitch Renkow
18. Who Makes Global Food Policy?, Robert Paarlberg
19. The Implications of a Changing Climate on Global Nutrition Security, Andrew D. Jones and Sivan Yosef