The authors assess the role various strategies can play in augmenting global food supplies and combating hunger.They attempt to defuse the contentious debate surrounding the development and spread of genetically modified (GM) foods, which, they ar

Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling resasons.

In countries where farming and fishing are major productive activities, processing enterprises can have a strategic developmental role. Infrastructural, institutional, and contractural issues arise around them.

The Kenyan government has actively encouraged cultivation of cash crops as part of its past and present development policies.

This chapter is about the biggest agricultural commercialization "project" of the 1980s: China's economic reforms.

This chapter focuses on the role of rural infrastructure development on the pace of commercialization and the effects of such development on various income classes, especially for food-insecure poor, in the rural economy.

Tree crops such as coffee, cocoa, and oil palm have been promoted for many years in Sierra Leone.

Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition are linked with one another. Policies influence the strength and direction of these linkages and welfare outcomes.

In the rapidly growing economies of Southeast Asia, besides the emergence of processing enterprises (as discussed in chapter 9) catering to the diversifying and growing domestic and international demand, partly combined with contract-farming syste

The Gambia (West Africa) had a population of approximately 0.75 million and a total agricultural cultivated area of only 1,850 square kilometers in 1987-88.

The choice between subsistence food crops, on the one hand, and cash crops, especially nonfood cash crops predominantly meant for exports, on the other hand, is a subject of considerable debate among policy makers as well as development specialist

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a per capita income of about US$170 (World Bank 1990).

This case study captures the story of a short-lived, temporarily successful, yet unsustainable commercialization project.

Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling reasons.

Potatoes, of all food crops, had the fastest average annual growth rate of production in Rwanda between 1970 and 1985: 6.8 percent.

In 1896, an obscure out-of-office politician rose to prominence and the Democratic presidential nomination on the basis of a rousing speech condemning the gold standard.

One of the most contentious issues in the cash crop/food crop debate revolves around the impact of commercialization of agriculture on the health and nutritional status of women and children/ This chaper examines the effects of commercialization o