Food Politics: The Global View

• Published date: 01 March 2012
• Date: 01 March 2012
• Author: Derek Yach
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02554.x

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systemic approaches to the interlinked issues of food

security, the nutritional aspects of chronic diseases,

environmental sustainability (made more pressing

by climate change), and the imperative to increase

nutritionally needed food output (Foley et al. 2011;

Foresight 2011; Nugent 2011).

Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II,

in Food Policy for Developing Countries, respond

to these issues and provide sage advice to policy

makers within governments, food and agricultural

companies, development agencies, and investment

Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, Food

Policy for Developing Countries:  e Role of

Government in Global, National, and Local Food

Systems (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011).

392 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780801448188.

The timing and content of this book demand

that it be read by a wider audience than the

academic one proposed (or assumed) by the

authors. Over the last few years, several major reports

have highlighted various aspects of the crises that

exist in global food systems. All point to the need for

Food Politics:  e Global View

Sonia M. Ospina and Rogan Kersh, Editors

Derek Yach

PepsiCo

Derek Yach is senior vice president of

global health and agriculture policy at

PepsiCo. Previously, he held senior positions

at the Rockefeller Foundation, Yale Univer-

sity, and the World Health Organization,

where he led the development of the

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

and the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical

Activity. He established the Centre for

Epidemiological Research in South Africa

and serves on the advisory boards of the

Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic

Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture, and the

World Food Program USA.

E-mail: derek.yach@pepsico.com