1. Indian Food Systems towards 2050: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. Economic Growth, Agriculture and Food Systems: Explaining Regional Diversity -- 3. Rural Livelihood Challenges: Moving out of Agriculture -- 4.Diet Diversity and the Declining Importance of Staple Grains -- 5.The Nutrition...

This chapter studies second-best models of nutritional externalities, credit, and incomplete markets for risk, developing implications for welfare-improving government policy using primitive economic building blocks. Using a simple model of altruism wherein the rich obtain utility from the...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Individual choices: explaining food consumption and production -- Chapter 3: Societal outcomes: predicting food market prices and quantities -- Chapter 4: Social welfare: evaluating change in food market outcomes -- Chapter 5: Market power: when innovation,...

Volume 2B. Part 5: Agricultural and Food Policy. The incidence of agricultural policy (J.M. Alston, J.S. James). Information, incentives, and the design of agricultural policies (R.G. Chambers). Market failures and second-best analysis, with a focus on nutrition, credit, and incomplete markets...