Energy And Food Security

After World War II, ambitious programmes to produce electricity from nuclear energy were begun, in the search for a return on the enormous amounts of money invested. The economic expansion in the West during the fiffties and sixties was directly related to enormous petrol consumption at a time when energy was considered plentiful and cheap. Energy consumption during these decades grew more than exponentially. The fastest developing industrial sectors were precisely the ones that consumed most energy-petro-chemical industries, metallurgy, car manufacturing, domestic appliances, electricity generating, etc.- and a trend developed towards gods and services with higher energy intensity. Since 1950, increased energy production has been systematically favoured over more rational use. So much so that the increase in energy consumption has been taken as a reliable indicator of progress.
About Author :
Dr. M. Lakshmia Narasaiah has been working as a Profesor of Economics, and Special Officer Sri Krishnadevaraya University Post-Graduate Centre, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. He is a Post Graudate in Economics and has secured first rank. He has received Ph.D., Degree from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, in 1987. He has worked as U.G.C. JRF and UGC SRF. Starting his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Economics in Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, he has been actively engaged in teaching and research for the past twenty-one years. He was associated with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, planning Department in their Centre for planning and Development Studies Projects.
Contents :
Energy: A Fair Deal for All Energy and Sutainability Population Growth and Energy Not Yet Fossil Fuel Food Production Food for the Billions India's Food Challenge Food First Less Food Security in the South Genetic Diversity and Food Security Food Security: Availability and Access to Food Healthcare Relief in Conflict Situations: What Can we Learn from the Food Relief Experience? Population Growth and Grain Production Population Growth and Cropland Turning on the Heat: India's National Programme on Solar Cooking Between Wish and Reality: The Limited Potential of the Solar Cookers High World Trade Growth Vs. Ooutput: WTO Sees Link to Globalisation Social Summit Climate Change and Human Health Living with Diversity Rural Poverty in India and Development as a Policy Challenge Towards a new Policy on Poverty Reduction The Population Challenge The Future of Work Export Subsidies: A Distortion to Free Trade in Agriculture The Uruguay Round and Agricultural Reforms Developing Counties and the WTO Agricultural Negotiations Opening Markets for Agriculture The Future of Agricultural Trade The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture WTO Agricultural Negotiations Completing the Task Development: The People Know Best Big-Dam Construction is on the Rise Corporate Dominance and Agricultural Biotechnology: Implication for Development Bibliography Index