Food Fight
Misguided Policies, Supply Challenges, and the Impending Struggle to Feed a Hungry World
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2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40036-8 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40036-8 (ISBN)
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Society's most basic challenge is arguably to produce and distribute enough food for its citizens. In 2023, 733 million people faced hunger, and 2.3 billion were moderately or severely food insecure. Feeding a growing world population is becoming more difficult as food demands rise in the face of climate change, pest resistance to traditional treatments, and misguided government policies that limit how much food ends up on our plates. Policies to support biofuels, organic agriculture, local foods, and small farms and to oppose genetically modified foods all reduce food production on existing land. This leads to higher food prices, increased carbon emissions, and less natural habitat as cropland expands. Food Fight documents the challenges to adequately feeding the world in the twenty-first century and illustrates the ways in which contemporary food policies in the United States, Europe, and beyond imperil food security. Richard J. Sexton provides a window into the world of modern agriculture and food-supply chains. He separates the wheat from the chaff to distinguish policies that will limit, or expand, the global food supply, and he explains how we can construct a food system that forestalls future hunger and environmental degradation.
Richard J. Sexton is Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He is founder and coeditor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Update, a University of California magazine devoted to contemporary food and environmental issues. He has published extensively in leading economics and agricultural journals.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.7.2025 |
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Zusatzinfo | 9 figures & 1 table |
Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-40036-4 / 0520400364 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-40036-8 / 9780520400368 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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