Food Security in Less Developed Countries, 1970 to 1990
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4901995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Craig Jenkins (0000-0003-3552-8027, The Ohio State University), Stephen J Scanlan (0000-0002-1603-987X, University of Memphis) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 718 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3088955 |
| OpenAlex | W2147273589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 83 |
| References cited | 78 |
Despite a global food surplus, almost half of the world's less developed countries suffer significant problems concerning food. Most social science and policy discussions of food security make the "food availability" assumption that increased food supply is the key to reducing hunger. Critics argue, however, that increased food supply has little impact on hunger and that the primary culprits are entrenched inequality and militarism. A lagged panel analysis of food supply and child hunger rates (1970-1990) shows that the food supply has only modest effects on child hunger rates and that food supply is structurally rooted in development processes (domestic investment, urban bias, foreign capital penetration) while child hunger is politically based in arms imports, internal violence and political democratization. Population pressure, tapped by increased age dependency, undermines both the supply of food and the population's access to it, and cultural dualism magnifies the effects of population pressure on child hunger. The effects of economic growth "trickle down" to affect both food supply and child hunger, and economic growth is also positively correlated with political democratization, suggesting there is no short-term "trade-off" between growth, democratization, and social equity
Agriculture · Business · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Food security · Geography · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Economic Growth and Productivity · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Economic globalization, nutrition and health
Disease, War, Hunger, and Deprivation
Science and Development
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Women's Rights Save Lives
Food systems’ transition and intergenerational equity
Effect of women’s political inclusion on the level of infrastructures in Africa
Mobile technology and food access
The Entitlement Approach
Schools Against Aids
Globalization, Development and International Migration
The domestic and global determinants of hunger
Measuring Government Effectiveness and Its Consequences for Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan African Countries
We Comply with a Little Help from Our Friends
Societies consuming nature
Ecological-Evolutionary Theory
New Direction and Discovery on the Hunger Front
Exploring household food security in the purview of military politics
Le emergenze umanitarie complesse
The temporal stability and developmental differences in the environmental impacts of militarism
Food Security in South Asian Countries
Trade Openness, Malnourishment and Income Inequality in South Asia
The effects of gender political inclusion and democracy on environmental performance
Militarization and the Environment
Promoting ‘good behaviour’ through aid
Food policy and state formation in Senegal and Uganda
The Effects of Global Interaction on Poverty in Developing Countries, 1991-2005
Structural Dynamics of International Trade and Material Consumption
Bringing the Military Back in
Political Economy, Capability Development, and Fundamental Cause
Capital Movements and Environmental Harms
Armed conflict and children's life chances
Food insecurity in South Africa
Foreign Direct Investment and Pesticide Use Intensity in Less-Developed Countries
The Sociology of Unequal Exchange in Ecological Context
Reaching the limits
The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems
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Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-being in Less-developed Countries, 1980–2003
The Transnational Organization of Production and Environmental Degradation
National Income, Inequality and Global Patterns of Cigarette Use
Modernization vs. Dependency Revisited
Reconsidering the Study of International Migration
Militarization and Energy Consumption
A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries
Agricultural Trade Dependency and the Threat of Starvation
Food Security and Comparative Sociology
Democracy and child health in developing countries
Coffee exports as ecological, social, and physical unequal exchange
Intensity of food deprivation
The Effects of Primary Sector Foreign Investment on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Agriculture Production in Less-Developed Countries, 1980-99
Linking Obesity and Malnutrition
Military Famine, Human Rights, and Child Hunger
Regressive Socioeconomic Distribution and Democratic Survival
Democratic Quality and Human Development in Latin America
World health inequality
Unequal Ecological Exchange and Environmental Degradation
The Economy, Military, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange Relationships in Comparative Perspective
Unpacking International Power and the Ecological Footprints of Nations
World-Economic Integration, Supply Depots, and Environmental Degradation
Civil War and Life Chances
Political-Economic Integration, Industrial Pollution and Human Health
Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates
Panel Models in Sociological Research
Structural Integration and The Trees
Economic and Other Societal Determinants of the Prevalence of Hiv
More soy on fewer farms' in Paraguay
Wealth and health revisited
Are all jobs created equal? A cross-national analysis of women's employment and child malnutrition in developing countries
Life satisfaction across nations
Political Order in Changing Societies
Development strategies reconsidered
Industrialism and industrial man
Military institutions and coercion in the developing nations
Transnational corporations and underdevelopment
World Development Report 1994
Human Development Report 1994
A Simple Test for Heteroscedasticity and Random Coefficient Variation
The Penn World Table (Mark 5)
Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Why poor people stay poor
The politics of modernization
Becoming Modern
Against Equality
Economic Growth and Income Inequality
Hunger and Public Action
Poverty and Famines
Causal Analysis with Panel Data
Food security and nutrition monitoring systems in Africa
Anthropometry as an indicator of access to food in populations prone to famine
Victims of the State
Recent Trends in Food Availability and Nutritional Wellbeing
Dimensions of social inequality in the Third World
Why Poor People Stay Poor
Change Scores as Dependent Variables in Regression Analysis
National Politics, International Dependency, and Basic Needs Provision
Black Africa
Markets and States in Tropical Africa
Accounting for genocide after 1945
A Note on the Measurement of Growth Rates in Cross-National Research
Differential Productivity, Negative Externalities, and Foreign Capital Dependency
Dependency and development in Latin America
Economic Growth and Basic Human Needs
Military Power and Food Security
Democracy, Political Stability, and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Politics, the State, and Basic Human Needs
Urban Bias, Dependence, and Economic Stagnation in Noncore Nations
Structural Determinants of Urbanization in Asia and Latin America, 1950- 1970
Income Inequality, Development, and Dualism
Disarticulation and Human Welfare in Less Developed Countries
Dependence, Distorted Development, and Fertility Trends in Noncore Nations
Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses? Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World
Income Inequality and Industrial Development
Population Pressure and the Food Supply System in the Developing World
Urbanization and Underdevelopment
The Sixth World Food Survey
Boon Or Bane? Reassessing the Productivity of Foreign Direct Investment
Food Security, Population and Environment
How Many People Can the Earth Feed
Child Mortality, Women's Status, Economic Dependency, and State Strength
Effects of Foreign Investment, Exports, and Economic Growth on Third World Food Consumption
Cross-National Determinants of Income Inequality
Polity, Economy and Technoecology
Borrowing against the Future
Dependency, Techno-Economic Heritage, Disarticulation, and Social Development in Less Developed Nations
International Economic Dependence and Human Misery, 1938-1980
Dimensions of Militarization in the Third World
Regression Diagnostics
Transnational Corporate Investment and Food the Third World
Political Democracy, Economic Development, Disarticulation, and Social Well-Being in Developing Countries
The Political Economy of Food
Does Foreign Capital Harm Poor Nations? New Estimates Based on Dixon and Boswell's Measures of Capital Penetration
Dependency, Disarticulation, and Denominator Effects
Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment
Structural Blockage
Social security and physical quality of life in developing nations
| Unique citing works | 73 |
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| Citations per year | 3,61 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |