Global Food Crisis

Th e global food crisis is not just another crisis, but its implications in terms of human

cost and human capability failures, human rights and human freedom go beyond

the arena of cognizable dimensions. Th e book is basically focused on the genesis,

magnitude, impact and policy alternatives for the present food crisis. It brings under

its analytic umbrella the problems and perspectives that accompany the crisis..

Th e ramifi cation of the crisis has been analyzed with respect to its impact on poverty,

income distribution, infl ation rates, investment and savings, economic growth rates

and other related macroeconomic fundamentals with special reference to developing

economies. Th e studies also elaborate on the short-run and long-run policy options

to fi nd viable solutions to the problem of world food crisis

Th e chapters are written by well-known scholars. Readers with an interest in food

prices and policy will fi nd this book to be a timely, up-to-date and informative for

their personal book collection. It should be immensely useful to students of the

subject, researchers, policy makers and intelligent laymen.



Dr. B. N. Ghosh, PhD (India), PhD (Australia), M.CIM (UK),

GFCR (Harvard), is a Visiting Professor at Leeds College of

Business Management and Technology, Leeds (UK) and formerly,

the Director of Institute of Management and Technology, Govt.

of Kerala, Punnapra (Kerala). He received his education from

Australia, India, UK and USA and has taught in many universities

in India and abroad including University of Science, Malaysia and

Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. He had a stint as a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University, China. He

has written a large number of books published by multinational publishers including

Routledge, Palgrave-Macmillan (London and New York), Nova Science(New York),

Wisdom House, Longman and Ashgate (London) and contributed a large number of

research papers in refereed professional journals of India, USA, UK, Cyprus, Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Bangladesh, Sweden, Korea, the Netherlands and Philippines. He has provided short-term consultancy to various organizations including the UGC, Govt. of Malaysia and the UNDP. He is the recipient of the Emerald Award (UK) for academic excellence (2006) and is the Chief Editor of Journal of Human Development.