Product Description: The spike in global food prices in 2007–08 not only led to riots on several continents; it also reawakened fears about the world’s future ability to feed itself, as growing populations place greater demands on agricultural systems operating in increasingly difficult environmental and climatic conditions...read more

Product Description: Over the last two decades, increasing concerns about health risks related to diets have had significant impacts on food consumption patterns in the United States and Europe. This timely book presents the results of several comparative studies of the impacts of health information on food consumption behavior amongst various socio-economic groups, and across many different countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Japan, as one of the largest importers of foods and agricultural products, is a big player in the world agricultural market. Over the last several decades, changes in the Japanese food consumption pattern have altered the food balance sheets in Japan...read more

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Product Description: This book reveals that the tensions surrounding US and Japanese agricultural trade lie less between the two nations then in an internal clash between traditional systems and economic growth. Contributors propose a policy compromise that respects Japan's concern for rice security and traditional foodstyles and America's concern for access to markets abroad - a proposal that would break a trade impasse detrimental to both Japan and the United States...read more

Product Description: Based on an unprecedented exchange between agricultural economists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, this book presents views from the two great ideological traditions in agricultural economics. Framing the debate in the context of socioeconomic organization, the role of markets, and international trade, the contributors examine the relative influence of historical circumstances and political ideology on present and future economic strategies...read more