Agricultural and Food Policy, Fifth Edition

The new edition of this popular book provides timely, comprehensive, highly readable, and authoritative treatment of issues important to food and agriculture today, including broad coverage of current policy issues affecting the food and agriculture industry. Addressing the broad array of policy issues that affect all aspects of the food and agricultural industries, this book covers such topics as policy change, economic foundations, US policy processes, geopolitical influence, the World Trade Organization, trade and development policy, farm policies, limited resources, environmental policy, food safety and security, food assistance and nutrition, and the future of agriculture and food policy. For directors of farm organizations, congressional staff, agribusiness persons, and agriculture consultants.