Table of Contents

Preface
David E. Sahn: Introduction
Part I: Nutrition Policy and Program
1: Jef L. Leroy, Marie Ruel, Jean-Pierre Habicht, and Edward A Frongillo: Using Height-For-Age Difference instead of Height-For-Age Z-Scores for the Meaningful Measurement of Catch-up Growth in Children Less Than 5 years of Age
2: Harold Alderman: Can Transfer Programs Be Made More Nutrition Sensitive?
3: Christopher B. Barrett and Leah E. M. Bevis: The Micronutrient Deficiencies Challenge in African Food Systems
4: Malden C. Nesheim and Marion Nestle: The Internationalization of the Obesity Epidemic: The Case of Sugar-Sweetened Sodas
5: Suresh Chandra Babu: Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Lessons from food Security and Nutrition Monitoring Systems During Food Crises
6: Anna Herforth: Access to Adequate Nutritious Food: New Indicators to Track Progress and Inform Action
Part II: Agricultural Development and Research and Technology Policy
7: Prabhu Pingali, Katie Ricketts, and David E. Sahn: Agriculture For Nutrition: Getting Policies Right
8: Peter Hazell: Is Small Farm Led Development Still a Relevant Strategy for Africa and Asia?
9: Julian M. Alston and Philip G. Pardey: Agricultural R&D, Food Prices, Poverty, and Malnutrition redux
10: Joachim von Braun: Bioeconomy: Science and Technology Policy to Harmonize Biologization of Economies with Food Security
11: Tina Andersen Huey: Global and Local Food Systems in the GM Labeling Campaign
12: Barbara Boyle Torrey and E. Fuller Torrey: Population Increases and Agricultural Productivity
Part III: Globalization and Political Economy
13: Shenggen Fan, Tolulope Olofinbiyi, and Sinafikeh Gemessa: Ending Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025: Accelerating the Pace
14: Erik Thorbecke: The Present Pattern of Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
15: Marygold Walsh-Dilley and Wendy Wolford: Social Mobilization and Food Security: The Contribution of Organized Civil Society to Hunger Reduction Policies in Latin America
16: Andy McKay and Finn Tarp: Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in Vietnam
17: Roger Slade and Mitch Renkow: Independence Or Influence: Tradeoffs in Development Policy Research
18: Robert Paarlberg: Who Makes Global Food Policy?
19: Andrew D. Jones and Sivan Yosef: The Implications of a Changing Climate on Global Nutrition Security

About the Author

David E. Sahn is an International Professor of Economics in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Economics at Cornell University. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan. His main academic interest is in identifying the solutions to poverty, malnutrition, and disease in developing countries, as well as the determinants of human capital and the role of education
and skills in labor market and other social and demographic outcomes. In addition to teaching and mentoring of graduate students, he devotes considerable efforts to training and capacity building of
research institutions in Africa and working with government officials and international organizations to integrate research findings into policy.

Reviews

...this is an impressive achievement and needs to be on the bookshelf of any serious food policy analyst.
*C. Peter Timmer, Economic Record*

Overall the book is a good read and a useful reference for those interested in understanding various intervention strategies that could accelerate the pace of reducing hunger and undernutrition. The strength of the book is that it describes not only the challenges in combating malnutrition, but also the opportunities and the appropriate intervention strategies that will condition success in achieving food security in the future.
*Muhammad Masood Azeem, University of Western Australia*