Assessment of the World Food Situation-Present and Future

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Almeida ◽  
David Baytelman ◽  
Jacques Chonchol ◽  
Joseph Collins ◽  
Susan George ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
World Food ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
The World ◽  
Consequent Reduction ◽  
First Time

The widespread bad harvests of 1972 in various regions of the world, the consequent reduction in grain reserves, the rapid rise in food prices almost everywhere and its impact on inflation, all have served to draw renewed attention to the problem of hunger which affects millions of human beings in the world today. During the 1974 United Nations World Food Conference many important matters relating to this problem were debated: the creation of international grain reserves; problems concerning world trade of foodstuffs; the current difficulties with certain key agricultural production factors, such as fertilizers; the necessity for organizing a worldwide information system on the situation; and prospects of various harvests and threats of famine in underdeveloped countries. It is often the case that discussion of the hunger problem does not correspond to the gravity of the crisis; true causes of the present situation are not examined, and measures are not adopted that will once and for all–for the first time–abolish hunger. In view of the prospect that the real issues are often ignored, the Transnational Institute provides this analysis in an attempt to clarify what must be done to abolish hunger in the belief that this is within the reach of humanity when and if we are determined to end the irrationalities of the present economic system and the relations of domination which some individuals and countries seek to continue.

The Two Manias: A Study of the Evolution of the Modern Concept of Mania

1981 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Hare
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
The World ◽  
Functional Psychoses ◽  
First Time

In the year 1899 there occurred an event which has had great consequence for psychiatry. This was the publication of the sixth edition of Emil Kraepelin's textbook, where he introduced for the first time his distinction between manic-depressive insanity and dementia praecox. It was a distinction which rapidly became accepted almost everywhere in the world, and it still forms the basis of our thinking about the nature of the functional psychoses. Kraepelin's concept of mania was quite different from the concept of mania held during most of the nineteenth century; and so, historically speaking, there are two manias, more or less sharply separated by the Kraepelinian revolution. The purpose of the present essay is to give some account of the term mania in its pre-Kraepelinian sense and of the events which led Kraepelin to his new concept; and also (in Part II) to put forward a new idea of why this revolution came about.

scholarly journals The future of organıc fısh productıon in the world

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 262-267
Author(s):  
Hülya SAYĞI ◽  
Ayhan SAYĞI ◽  
Mahmut Ali GÖKÇE
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Fish Production ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Natural Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

One of the fundamental problems of the world humans live in is that the resources human beings have used to meet their needs are limited. These resources, when used correctly, are enough to meet these needs. The main problem here is the mistakes human beings make and them not being aware of making these. In other words, they are consciously or unconsciously destroying the world they live in with every action they have taken to create the civilization. In this study, we will focus on the subjects of damages brought out to the natural sources by agricultural and aquacultural production which is used to meet the need for food, and wiping the effects of these damages. In this context, we will also focus on the conditions of the organic agriculture principle application on aquacultural production, which has emerged as a solution to the threats targeting human health and to the environmental problems brought out by the agricultural production.

scholarly journals INTEGRASI PASAR BERAS INDONESIA DENGAN PASAR BERAS INTERNASIONAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-103
Author(s):  
Catur Sugiyanto ◽  
Soetatwo Hadiwigeno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
International Market ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
World Food ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Rice Market ◽  
The World ◽  
Rice Price ◽  
Production Pattern

The food crisis that was triggered by climate change has swept the world lately. Climate change is affecting the pattern of the world that led to changes in the pattern of agricultural production as well. Changes in the pattern of production results in world food production schedule was delayed, and along with these changes, many countries export so that world food prices increase. Rising world food prices starting from US and then spread in the other parts of the world, including Indonesia. However, it is unknown how big relatedness of International food prices changes with food prices in Indonesia. This paper aims to analyze the connectedness between domestic rice market with international market, how long shock in international rice impact on the domestic market and to analyze interlinkage in domestic primary rice market.  Using data rice price in indonesia and international rice price of FAO, writer found that market rice integrated both in domestic and foreign, so the fluctuations in both markets would affect each other Keywords:  Food Crisis, Production Pattern,  Domestic and International Market Integration

scholarly journals An Analysis on the Influencing Factors of the World Food Price

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Fang Min
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Food Price ◽  
World Food ◽  
The World ◽  
The Exchange Rate

The paper analyzes influencing factors of the world food price by using the data from 1964 to 2013. There is cointegration relationship between the world food price, world agricultural productivity, world food production, food consumption, food inventory, world oil prices, and the exchange rate of dollar. The world agricultural productivity, world food production and the exchange rate of dollar have significantly negative effect on the world food price. The world food consumption has significantly positive impact on the word food price. The impact of the world food stock and the world crude oil price on world food prices is not statistically significant. The elasticity of world food production on the world food price is less than the elasticity of world food consumption. To improve the agricultural productivity, increase food production is the key measure to stabilize the world food prices.

The World Food Conference

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Riley
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
World Food ◽  
High Food ◽  
White House ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Global Food

Just before leaving the White House to assume his duties as secretary of state, Kissinger alerted top Agriculture officials in Washington that the president was increasingly concerned with the growing world food crisis. Among the responses was word that the American food aid program was not going to be able to meet its global food aid commitments because of the combination of high food prices and budgetary constraints. Shortly thereafter Kissinger publicly called for the convening of a World Food Conference to consider the problem and propose long-term remedies. This chapter describes interagency debates over what the United States should—and should not—promise in the conference. It highlights the difference between domestic agriculture interests, represented by Secretary of Agriculture Butz, foreign policy interests, exemplified by Kissinger, humanitarian concerns, voiced by Senator Humphrey, and the perspective of the new president, Gerald Ford.

scholarly journals INTEGRASI PASAR BERAS INDONESIA DENGAN PASAR BERAS INTERNASIONAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-103
Author(s):  
Catur Sugiyanto ◽  
Soetatwo Hadiwigeno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
International Market ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
World Food ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Rice Market ◽  
The World ◽  
Rice Price ◽  
Production Pattern

The food crisis that was triggered by climate change has swept the world lately. Climate change is affecting the pattern of the world that led to changes in the pattern of agricultural production as well. Changes in the pattern of production results in world food production schedule was delayed, and along with these changes, many countries export so that world food prices increase. Rising world food prices starting from US and then spread in the other parts of the world, including Indonesia. However, it is unknown how big relatedness of International food prices changes with food prices in Indonesia. This paper aims to analyze the connectedness between domestic rice market with international market, how long shock in international rice impact on the domestic market and to analyze interlinkage in domestic primary rice market.  Using data rice price in indonesia and international rice price of FAO, writer found that market rice integrated both in domestic and foreign, so the fluctuations in both markets would affect each other Keywords:  Food Crisis, Production Pattern,  Domestic and International Market Integration

scholarly journals REGULATING EXCESSIVE SPECULATION: COMMODITY DERIVATIVES AND THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 625-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Price Volatility ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
Commodity Derivatives ◽  
To Come ◽  
Derivative Markets ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Crisis

AbstractEvidence suggests that commodity derivatives speculation contributed to extraordinary patterns of grain price volatility that led to a global food crisis in 2007–11. People in countries throughout the world are increasingly dependent on international commodity markets for access to food. Almost everywhere, now, the value of food is determined by a single condensed symbol of its worth—its price. Persuaded of the need to ensure that this measure of value is not put at risk of distortion in the pursuit of financial profit, governments in the US and in the EU are now implementing new regulations designed to curb ‘excessive’ levels of speculation in derivative markets. Carrying out an analysis of these regulatory measures, the article demonstrates that both sets of reforms suffer from a critical limitation: They are predicated on an inaccurate understanding of how activity in commodity derivative markets can impact on underlying food prices. If the new regulations for commodity derivative markets are not up to the task, as this article argues that they are not, a more fundamental revision of global economic structures may be required if the basic needs of human beings are not to be subsumed to the interests of financial capital in the years to come.

scholarly journals Foreign experience in improving food security as one of the most im-portant foundations for ensuring the national security of the state (on the example of Japan)

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
P. Kobetc
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the problem of chronic hunger, which has worsened over the past decades in the world, clearly indicates that there is not enough food in the world to feed people. The problem under consideration continues to worsen due to such factors as: the effects of climate change, the unstable world economy, low agricultural production, growing poverty and unstable food prices. Thus, these factors have set new challenges for the world to produce and continuously supply the population with basic foodstuffs. In modern Japan, the problems related to ensuring food security on the basis of a strong interaction between the agro-industrial complex and the state are very active. At the same time, the problem of food security in the land of the rising sun differs from the world one. Since Japanese food security consists in increasing the self-sufficiency coefficient by increasing domestic production in order to meet the demand for both types of food related to traditional Japanese food and imported from abroad. Thus, in addition to understanding the problem of food security in Japan, this paper also focuses on the need to increase self-sufficiency in food.

scholarly journals Research on the Relationship between Prices of Agricultural Production Factors, Food Consumption Prices, and Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China’s Provincial Panel Data

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3136
Author(s):  
Jiaxing Pang ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Xingpeng Chen ◽  
Huiyu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
Emissions Reduction ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Carbon Emissions Reduction ◽  
The Relationship

China is a large agricultural country with a high level of agricultural carbon emissions. Whether market prices can be used in agricultural production as a means of agricultural carbon emissions reduction is of great significance to improve the allocation of agricultural production factors and expand large-scale production. This paper applies an autoregressive distributed lag–pooled mean group(ARDL–PMG) model to evaluate the relationship between agricultural production factor prices, food consumption prices, and agricultural carbon emissions, using Chinese provincial panel data from 1994 to 2018. The results show that agricultural carbon emissions and agricultural production factor prices show environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) characteristics; agricultural carbon emissions and food prices show a U-shaped curve; and agricultural production factors are positively correlated with food price in both directions in the long-term. The results of Granger causality tests show that price is the cause of agricultural carbon emissions; the price of agricultural production factors and the price of food consumption are mutually causal. Such results have implications for price, agriculture, and environmental policies. The analysis implies that the market price can be applied to agricultural carbon reduction, which will help policymakers to implement effective price policies in order to reduce agricultural carbon emissions. One implication is that promoting the marketization of agricultural production factors and reducing price distortions will be conducive to carbon emissions reduction in agriculture, which in turn will increase food consumption prices. Therefore, subsidies are needed at the consumption end, which will eventually achieve further carbon emissions reduction at the production and consumption ends.

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