Food crops vs. feed crops : global substitution of grains in production
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Food crops vs. feed crops : global substitution of grains in production
Lynne Rienner, 1990
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
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Bibliography: p. 155-163
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The attainment of food self-sufficiency has been a major goal of developing countries over the past 25 years. Yet, in the 1980s, most of these countries have increased, often dramatically, their dependence on food imports. Within this context, the authors assess the implications for producer welfare of the changes in grain production and consumption in developing countries from 1960 to 1985 - changes in grains produced, who produces them, who buys them and to what end. As developing economies are integrated into the world commodity markets, argue the authors, they tend increasingly toward substitution of grains in production: feed crops for animals displace food crops for people. There is also a corresponding shift from labour-intensive farming to mechanized agriculture. As a result, not only does food dependency increase - as measured by continuing growth in imports and foreign trade imbalances - but nutritional improvements are also forestalled. The authors' analysis of changing patterns of grain cultivation aims to identify how these lead to substantially altered patterns of nutrition, employment generation and income distribution.
Table of Contents
- Worldwide patterns in grain production and trade
- the substitution of grains in Latin America
- the substitution of grains in Northern Africa
- the substitution of grains in West Africa
- the substitution of grains in Eastern and Southern Africa
- the substitution of grains in Asia
- directions for future research.
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