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...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Toward a Dynamic Global Food System -- Chapter 2. Food Policy -- Chapter 3. Human Health and Nutrition Policies -- Chapter 4. Food Security, Consumption, and Demand Policies -- Chapter...

Even though substantial progress has been achieved worldwide in reducing both poverty and malnutrition, much is yet to be done. There are signs that the progress made in both dimensions has stalled in recent years. This special issue of Policy in Focus is dedicated to answering a crucial...

Fast food has become a major source of nutrition in low-income, urban neighborhoods across the United States. Although some social and cultural factors account for fast food's overwhelming popularity, targeted marketing, infiltration into schools, government subsidies, and federal food policy...