Nikos Alexandratos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1511577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikos Alexandratos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikos |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexandratos |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDRATOS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Former Chief of the Global Perspective Studies Unit of FAO (Rome), now retired. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Governments, Markets, and the Ending of Hunger
Food Price Surges
The food price surges of recent years have created much misery and raised once again the Malthusian specter. Increases in the demand for food in the emerging economies, particularly China and India, have frequently been identified as the dominant factor behind a perceived shock on the demand side. Use of crops for biofuels was listed as an additional, though less important, factor. Yet global cereals utilization without biofuels has been growing …
The Mediterranean diet in a world context
Objective To put the debate on the Mediterranean diet in context by highlighting historical and prospective changes in the level and composition of food consumption in the world and key Mediterranean countries. Design Data from FAO's food balance sheets are used to illustrate historical evolution. Projections to 2030 are presented from FAO's recent and ongoing work on exploring world food and agriculture futures. Setting International. Results an…
Countries with Rapid Population Growth and Resource Constraints
Recent long-term demographic projections suggest a fast deceleration of global population growth and the eventual peaking of world population later in this century at about 9.2 billion, roughly 50 percent above the present level. Some low-income and food-insecure countries, however, have projected populations in 2050 that are multiples of present ones. In some of these countries agriculture must play a leading role in their development efforts be…
The World Food Outlook
The midl990s witnessed one of the periodic resurgences of interest in the alleged Malthusian predicament of humankind. Characteristically, The Economist, not usually given to journalistic hype, carried three times in 18 months major stories on the world situation featuring the words starve and food crisis' in their titles (10 June and 25 November 1995, 16 November 1996). The occasion for the resurgence of interest was provided by the virtual stag…
China's consumption of cereals and the capacity of the rest of the world to increase exports
World Agriculture
Food Price Surges
The food price surges of recent years have created much misery and raised once again the Malthusian specter. Increases in the demand for food in the emerging economies, particularly China and India, have frequently been identified as the dominant factor behind a perceived shock on the demand side. Use of crops for biofuels was listed as an additional, though less important, factor. Yet global cereals utilization without biofuels has been growing …
Countries with Rapid Population Growth and Resource Constraints
Recent long-term demographic projections suggest a fast deceleration of global population growth and the eventual peaking of world population later in this century at about 9.2 billion, roughly 50 percent above the present level. Some low-income and food-insecure countries, however, have projected populations in 2050 that are multiples of present ones. In some of these countries agriculture must play a leading role in their development efforts be…
China's consumption of cereals and the capacity of the rest of the world to increase exports
World Agriculture
The World Food Outlook
The midl990s witnessed one of the periodic resurgences of interest in the alleged Malthusian predicament of humankind. Characteristically, The Economist, not usually given to journalistic hype, carried three times in 18 months major stories on the world situation featuring the words starve and food crisis' in their titles (10 June and 25 November 1995, 16 November 1996). The occasion for the resurgence of interest was provided by the virtual stag…
China's consumption of cereals and the capacity of the rest of the world to increase exports
Countries with Rapid Population Growth and Resource Constraints
Recent long-term demographic projections suggest a fast deceleration of global population growth and the eventual peaking of world population later in this century at about 9.2 billion, roughly 50 percent above the present level. Some low-income and food-insecure countries, however, have projected populations in 2050 that are multiples of present ones. In some of these countries agriculture must play a leading role in their development efforts be…
The Mediterranean diet in a world context
Objective To put the debate on the Mediterranean diet in context by highlighting historical and prospective changes in the level and composition of food consumption in the world and key Mediterranean countries. Design Data from FAO's food balance sheets are used to illustrate historical evolution. Projections to 2030 are presented from FAO's recent and ongoing work on exploring world food and agriculture futures. Setting International. Results an…
Food Price Surges
The food price surges of recent years have created much misery and raised once again the Malthusian specter. Increases in the demand for food in the emerging economies, particularly China and India, have frequently been identified as the dominant factor behind a perceived shock on the demand side. Use of crops for biofuels was listed as an additional, though less important, factor. Yet global cereals utilization without biofuels has been growing …
Governments, Markets, and the Ending of Hunger
Economics (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agricultural economics (3 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Natural resource economics (3 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (2 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)