Food Security, Diversification and Resource Management

Presidential address: technology, policy and trade -the keys to food security and environmental protection, Robert L. Thompson; Elmhirst Memorial Lecture: the dynamics of agriculture, Yair Mundlak. Part 1 Security and demand challenges - global level and national policy issues, household consumption improvement: food security - a global perspective, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Rajul Pandya-Lorch; national food security - a policy perspective for India, C.H. Hanumantha Rao, R. Radhakrishna; food security and the household, Ben Snauer, Terry Row. Part 2 Agricultural diversification and new technology: diversification and international trade, Alex McCalla, Alberto Valdes; rural economy and farm income diversification in developing countries, Chris Delgado, Ammar Siamwalla; agricultural biotechnology - economic and international implications, David Zilberman et al. Part 3: Resource management in agriculture - water and land, biodiversity, agriculture and climate: water and land resources and global food supply, Mark Rosegrant et al; impacts of global warming on agriculture, Darwin Hall; management of genetic resources for agriculture - ecology and information, externalities and policies, Timothy Swanson. Part 4 Economics of policy and institutional change: institutional transformation process - experiences, causes and implications, P. Michael Schmitz, Cornelia Noeth; policy and institutional change for agriculture in China - production, consumption and trade implications, Ke Bingsheng; regionalism in world food markets - implications for trade and welfare, Thomas Hertel et al. Contributed papers - household, diets and credit: determinants of time spent in non-farm employment by farmers in northern Ghana, Awudu Abdulai, Christopher L. Delgado; intra-household resource allocation in Ghana - the impact of the distribution of asset ownership within the household, Cheryl, R. Doss; determinants of diversification of urban Sahel diets into maize - a contingent valuation study of processed maize demand in Mali, D. Boughton et al; will European diets be similar? a cointegration approach, A. Gracia et al; the effects of food aid on maize prices in Mozambique, Cynthia Donovan et al; choices by poor households when the interest rate for deposits differs from the interest rate for loans, Mark Schreiner et al; factors affecting rural medium-term loan repayment - evidence from a South African development finance institution, M.E. Kuhn, M.A. Robinson. Contributed papers. (Part contents).