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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Our Focus | |
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| Chapter OutlineStudy Questions | |
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| The Demand Side: How Population Growth and Higher Incomes Affect Food Consumption | |
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| Classic Malthusianism, its Modern Variants, and its Critiques | |
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| Demographic Transition | |
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| Trends in Human Numbers, Past and Present | |
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| Food Consumption and Income | |
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| Demand Trends and Projections | |
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| Summary and ConclusionsStudy Questions Appendix: The Fundamental Economics of Demand | |
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| The Supply Side: Agricultural Production and its Determinants | |
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| The Nature of Agriculture | |
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| Increases in Agricultural Supply | |
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| Has Intensification Run its Course? | |
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| Trends in Per-Capita ConsumptionStudy Questions Appendix: The Fundamental Economics of Supply | |
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| Aligning the Consumption and Production of Food over Time | |
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| The Desirability of Competitive Equilibrium | |
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| The Market Impacts of Commodity Programs | |
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| Historical Trends in the Scarcity of Agricultural Products | |
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| Outlook for the Twenty-First CenturyStudy Questions Appendix: The Coordination of Decentralized Decision-Making | |
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| Agriculture and the Environment | |
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| Environmental Trade-Offs | |
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| Market Failure | |
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| Environmental Deterioration in the Absence of Agricultural Intensification | |
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| Agricultural Development and the EnvironmentStudy Questions | |
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| Globalization and Agriculture | |
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| The Theory of Comparative Advantage | |
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| The Net Costs of Trade Distortions | |
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| The Debate over Globalization | |
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| Agricultural Trade: Recent Trends and the Current Debate | |
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| Why Not More Trade?Study Questions Appendix: A Two-Country Illustration of Comparative Advantage | |
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| Agriculture and Economic Development | |
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| Growth and Economic Structure | |
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| Agriculture's Role in Economic Development | |
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| Trying to Develop at Agriculture's Expense | |
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| Agricultural Development for the Sake of Economic Growth and Diversification | |
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| Summary and ConclusionsStudy Questions | |
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| Striving for Food Security | |
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| What is Food Security? | |
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| Who and Where Are the Food-Insecure? | |
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| Achieving Food Security | |
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| The Food Security Synthesis and Economic Development | |
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| The Standard Model, Communitarian Values, and Economic EquityStudy Questions | |
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| A Synopsis of Regional Trends in the Global Food Economy | |
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| Economic Growth and Income Distribution | |
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| Population Dynamics | |
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| Agriculture's Response to Demand Growth | |
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| Affluent Nations | |
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| Standards of Living | |
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| Population Dynamics | |
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| The Food Economy | |
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| Dietary Change and Consumption Trends | |
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| Asia | |
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| Trends in GDP per Capita | |
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| Population Dynamics | |
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| Agricultural Development | |
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| Dietary Change, Consumption Trends, and Food Security | |
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| Latin America and the Caribbean | |
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| Trends in GDP per Capita | |
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| Population Dynamics | |
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| Agricultural Development | |
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| Dietary Change, Consumption Trends, and Food Security | |
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| Middle East and North Africa | |
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| Trends in GDP per Capita | |
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| Population Dynamics | |
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| Agricultural Development | |
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| Dietary Change, Consumption Trends, and Food Security | |
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| Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union | |
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| Patterns of Economic Growth since the Fall of Communism | |
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| Demographic Trends | |
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| The Agricultural Sector | |
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| Dietary Change, Consumption Trends, and Food Security | |
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| Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Trends in GDP per Capita | |
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| Demographic Trends | |
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| Agricultural Development | |
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| Consumption Trends and Food Security | |
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| The Food Economy in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Victims of Our Own Success? | |
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| The New Food Economy | |
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| The Changing Role of GovernmentStudy Questions | |
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| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Map Annex | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |