The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World

by Howard D. Leathers, Phillips Foster

Recognizing that millions of people in less-deeloped countries continue to go hungry while there is more than enough food in the world to feed them, the authors of THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM tackle the questions of why--and what can be done about it.

447 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2004

Reviews

[Xing Chen]

Educates the reader about complex factors that influence and determine the agricultural production, marketplace transactions, distribution, and consumption, of food across the globe. Heavily illustrated with examples and easily-graspable number values, to convey the scale and degree of changes when individual parameters are varied. Allows even those with little background in economics to understand why, say, a widespread decrease in food intake in developed countries does not translate by any means into an automatic and morally-satisfying diversion of food resources to poorer countries.
Includes detailed explanation of biological concepts- calories, minerals and vitamins, food groups, malnutrition and under-nutrition, disease, GM foods and widely-used crop-growing techniques.

Essential reading for those who want a clear and highly stimulating introduction to the subject of world hunger.