The African food system and its interaction with human health and nutrition
By: edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Contributors: United Nations University
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780801476921
Description: Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries (also from Cornell), the 2001 World Food Prize laureate Per Pinstrup-Andersen and his colleague Derrill D. Watson II analyze international food policies and discuss how such policies can and must address the many complex challenges that lie ahead in view of continued poverty, globalization, climate change, food price volatility, natural resource degradation, demographic and dietary transitions, and increasing interests in local and organic food production. Food Policy for Developing Countries offers a "social entrepreneurship" approach to food policy analysis. Calling on a wide variety of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography, the authors show how all elements in the food system function together--Book description.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the United Nations University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The African food system and human health and nutrition : a conceptual and empirical overview / Per Pinstrup-Andersen; title: The nutrition situation in Sub-Saharan Africa / Derrill D. Watson and Per Pinstrup-Andersen; title: Disease burdens of Sub-Saharan Africa and their interactions with malnutrition / Onesmo K. ole-MoiYoi; title: Animals as a source of human diseases : historical perspective and future health risks for the African population / E. Fuller Torrey; title: How AIDS epidemics interact with African food systems and how to improve the response / Stuart Gillespie; title: Pest management, farmer incomes and health risks in Sub-Saharan Africa : pesticides, host plant resistance and other measures / Rebecca Nelson; title: Nutrition and the environment : fundamental to food security in Africa / Anna Herforth; title: Food safety as a bridge between the food system and human health in Sub-Saharan Africa / Dorothy Nakimbugwe and Kathryn J. Boor; title: Population dynamics and future food requirements in Sub-Saharan Africa / Barbara Boyle Torrey; title: Income and food transfers to improve human health and nutrition / Harold Alderman; title: The impact of poor health and nutrition on labor productivity, poverty, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / David E. Sahn; title: Food systems and the escape from poverty and ill-health traps in Sub-Saharan Africa / Christopher B. Barrett; title: Strengthening the role of women in the food systems of Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve nutrition and health goals / Laura K. Cramer and Speciosa Wandira; title: Bridging the gap : linking agriculture and health to achieve the millennium development goals / Joachim von Braun, Marie T. Ruel, and Stuart Gillespie.