 | Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard Subjects: Food security -- Developing countries -- Economic aspects; Food security -- Government policy -- Developing countries; Food supply -- Developing countries -- Economic aspects; Food supply -- Government policy -- Developing countries; Agriculture and state; Ending hunger requires that each society find the right balance of market forces and government interventions to bring even a country's most vulnerable citizens into a sustainable food system. C. Peter Timmer explains how food markets operate and when it is effective for governments to step in. C. Peter Timmer is Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Development Studies, emeritus, at Harvard University. He is author of many books, including A World Without Agriculture: The Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective, and coauthor of Food Policy Analysis. |
