Fight Against Food Shortages and Surpluses The (Paperback-2021)

This book presents a logical argument, rigorously formulated, for practical policy options to fight food shortages and surpluses. It navigates the reader through issues and ideologies surrounding hunger, presents and tests hypotheses with theory and evidence, and concludes with workable policies to address food crises.

John McClintock is an agricultural economist (Reading and Oxford universities, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Montpellier). He has worked in a number of developing and European countries and for the European Commission. He is the founder of ACTION for Food Reserves, a non-governmental organisation in Brussels that seeks to promote stable grain prices and the use of buffer stocks.