The World Food Problem: Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World

(Lynne Rienner Publishers) Asking why millions of people in less-developed countries go hungry while there is an abundance of food in the world, the authors of this book analyze the current world food problem and assess prospects for the future. Leathers is an associate professor of agriculture and resource economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Foster is a professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland, College Park.