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Hunger and Malnutrition
as Major Challenges of
the 21st Century

World Scientific Series in Grand Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century

ISSN: 2630-4856

Editor-in-Chief

Anil B Deolalikar (University of California, Riverside, USA)

This book series will address topics related to some of the biggest challenges facing societies around the world in the 21st century threats such as climate change, food insecurity and malnutrition, energy and water insecurity, pandemics, conflict and violence, growing inequality and poverty, low fertility and depopulation in affluent countries, anemic economic growth and stubbornly high unemployment in much of the developed world, and rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases in developing countries. If unaddressed, these challenges have a real chance of derailing the substantial gains in living standards and quality of life achieved around the world in the last three decades.

The World Scientific Series in Grand Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century, under the leadership of Professor Anil Deolalikar, a renowned development economist, seeks to fill this gap. It will strive to publish high-quality scientific works, including monographs, edited volumes, references, and handbooks, that address topics related to the grand challenges confronting societies around the world today.

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Vol. 3	Hunger and Malnutrition as Major Challenges of the 21st Century edited by Raghbendra Jha (Australian National University, Australia)
Vol. 2	Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities edited by Rachid Serraj (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy) and Prabhu Pingali (Cornell University, USA)
Vol. 1	Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural Policies editor-in-chief Tim Josling (Stanford University, USA) edited by David Blandford (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) and Katharine Hassapoyannes (European Parliament, Belgium)

Hunger and Malnutrition as Major Challenges of the 21st Century

editor

Raghbendra Jha

Australian National University, Australia

Published by

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jha, Raghbendra, editor.

Title: Hunger and malnutrition as major challenges of the 21st century / edited by Raghbendra Jha (Australian National University, Australia).

Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2018] | Series: World scientific series in grand public policy challenges of the 21st century ; Volume 3

Identifiers: LCCN 2018039245 | ISBN 9789813239906 (hc : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Food security. | Food supply. | Malnutrition. | Food policy.

Classification: LCC HD9000.5 .H834 2018 | DDC 363.8--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018039245

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Preface

Hunger and malnutrition have been major global challenges for long. Addressing these challenges is crucial not just for the sake of providing a basic need adequate nourishment to all persons but also because there are ethical, human rights and economic arguments why these are necessary. For instance, reducing undernourishment increases labour productivity and, thus, economic growth. With undernourishment come the health and other costs of addressing the consequences of such undernourishment. However, unlike issues such as the eradication of poverty, addressing the hunger and malnutrition challenges have few fervent politically powerful advocates. The scale of the hunger and malnutrition problems could become even more challenging as global population is expected to cross 9 billion by the middle of this century.

This volume attempts to take stock of hunger and malnutrition challenges in the 21st century. This volume has chapters on thematic issues as well as deep country studies, particularly for the African countries as well as for China and India. It is to be hoped that the papers in this volume will stimulate further interest in applied research on these topics, particularly as the consequences of the evolving challenges of climate change, human conflict and increasing international protectionism, to name just three, take hold.

In putting together this volume, I have benefited much from the advice and support of a number of people. I name the most obvious of these here. The authors of the individual chapters have spared their invaluable time to contribute their excellent research to this volume. To them I am very grateful. I am also very grateful to Anil Deolalikar, the series editor for Grand Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century (of which this book is a component), for his gracious invitation to contribute this volume to the series and for his unflinching support. Zvi Ruder (Senior Executive Publisher of this series at World Scientific Publishers) was very supportive throughout the process of putting together this volume. I am much obliged to Zvi for this support. Finally, I am obliged to the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, my home in the Australian National University, for providing me with such a conducive atmosphere for my writing.

Canberra

January 2018

About the Editor

Raghbendra Jha is Professor of Economics and Executive Director, Australia South Asia Research Centre, at the Australian National University. His previous appointments include Columbia University (where he obtained his PhD) and Williams College in the US, Queens University in Canada, University of Warwick in the UK and Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in India. He has published dozens of books/monographs and more than 150 papers in leading journals and other refereed outlets.

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