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:: THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ::
:: ISSN 1812-7029 :: Vol I (2004), Issue 2 ::


FAO Agricultural and Development Economics Division

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  Globalization of Food Systems:
  Impact on Food Security and Nutrition

Emerging challenges for food and nutrition policy in developing countries
Kostas G. Stamoulis, Prabhu Pingali and Prakash Shetty

Globalization, urbanization and nutritional change in the developing world
Michelle A. Mendez and Barry M. Popkin

The rapid rise of supermarkets in developing countries: Induced organizational, institutional, and technological change in agrifood systems
Thomas Reardon, Peter Timmer and Julio Berdegue

Features of urban food and nutrition security and considerations for successful urban programming
Marie T. Ruel and James L. Garrett

The growing global obesity problem: Some policy options to address it
Josef Schmidhuber

Food policy in the era of supermarkets: What's different?
C. Peter Timmer

The food processing industry, globalization and developing countries
John Wilkinson