FOOD POLICY

Vol .24, NO. 1, February. 1999


Viewpoints 1 A tribute to Professor Amartya Sen on the occasion of his receiving the
1998 Nobel Prize for Economics
Stephen Devereux and Hans Singer

7 From Tood aid' to 'aid for food': into the 21st century
ShlotnoReutlinger

17 Ecological principles in agricultural policy: but which principles? A
response
Gordon Conway

Papers 21 Agricultural credit problems and policies during the transition to a market
economy in Central and Eastern Europe
Johan F.M. Swinnen and Hamish R. Gow

49 Real targeting: the case of food distribution in India
JosMooij

71 Human milk supply in Australia
Julie P. Smith

93 Denmark's contribution to the world food programme: a success story
Bjorg Colding, Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Book reviews 109 The Living Land by Jules Pretty (John Nelson); Political Economy of
Agrarian Reform in Central and Eastern Europe edited by Johan F.M.
Swinnen (Keith S. Howe)

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Volume 24, Number 2-3, April-June 1999


115 Introduction
Cutberto Garza, David Pelletier, Christine Ranney, Alan Mathios and Paul
McNamara

Part One: Economics of nutrition and health

117 The gap between food intakes and the Pyramid recommendations:
measurement and food system ramifications
Paul E. McNamara, Christine K. Ranney, Linda Scott Kantor and Susan
M, Krebs-Smith

135 Diet and health: new problems/new solutions
Laina M. Bush and Richard A. Williams

145 Economic evaluation of nutrition policy
Or, there's no such thing as a free lunch
Donald S. Kenkel and Willard Manning

163 Commentary
Jere R. Behrman

Part Two: Issues related to production agriculture in the United States

181 Agricultural commodity production and trade: a trade economist's view on
filling US food supply gaps
Philip Abbott

197 Agriculture and dietary guidelines
John M. Duxbury and Ross M. Welch


231 Commentary
Barbara 0. Schneeman

Part Three: Issues relating to food processing and the marketing system
in the United States

237 How can the US food system deliver food products consistent with the
dietary guidelines? Food marketing and retailing: an economist's view
Jean Kinsey and Bradley Bowland

255 Food processing: a food scientist's perspective
Robert E. Smith

265 Commentary
Rhona S. Applebawn

Part Four: The consumer's role

269 Economics, food choices, and nutrition
James Blaylock, David Smalhvood, Kathleen Kassel, Jay Variyam and
Lorna Aldrich

287 Factors affecting food decisions made by individual consumers
Elaine H. Asp

295 How government policies shape the food and nutrition information
environment
Pauline M. lppolito

307 Commentary
Marion Nestle

Part Five: Implications for public policy

311 Public policy and the supply of food
Keith Collins


325 Public policy in nutrition: the US nutrition safety net—past, present and
future
Eileen Kennedy

335 Public policy and healthy eating
J. Michael McGinnis and Linda D. Meyers

343 Commentary
Nevin S. Scrimshaw

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Volume 24, Number 4, August 1999

Viewpoints 349 Commercial R&D linkage with public agro-food institutions
A.P. Barries

357 Attaining food security in Central Asia—emerging issues and challenges
for policy research
Suresh Chandra Babu and Alisher Tashmatov

Papers 363 Household food security in semi-arid Africa—the contribution of
participatory adaptive research and development to rural livelihoods in
Eastern Kenya
A.J. Sutherland, J. W. lrungu, J. Kang 'ara, J. Muthamia and J. Ourna

391 Food aid targeting in Ethiopia. A study of who needs it and who gets it
Daniel C. Clay, Daniel Molla and Debebe Habtewold

411 Alternative food-security indicators: revisiting the frequency and severity of
'coping strategies'
Daniel Maxwell, Clement Ahiadeke, Carol Levin, Margaret Armar-
Klemesu, Sawadatu Zakariah and Grace Mary Lamptey

431 Economics of transgenic herbicide-tolerant canola. The case of western
Canada
Holly Mayer and W.H. Furtan

443 The cereal flour enrichment program in Venezuela. Some results during a
decreasing food purchasing power stage
Elvira Ablan de Floret and Edgar Abreu Olivo

Book reviews 459 Eat Your Genes by Stephen Nottingham (Tilo Ulbricht); The Politics of
Fat: Food and Nutrition Policy in America by Laura S. Simms (A E
Bender); Changes in Japan's Agrarian Structure by Mitsugi Kamiya (Ann
Waswo)