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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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SummaryStudy QuestionsTables | |
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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 | |