Overview
Examines agricultural and rural development in the context of sustainability
Rethinks the food security issues related to agricultural and rural development
Identifies the key dynamics of food security governance
Redefines the world food equation by including climate change and energy imperatives
Features relevant experiences pertaining to agricultural sustainability and food security
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Agriculture and Rural Development at the Heart of Sustainability and Food Security
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Agriculture and rural development at the heart of sustainability and food security
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Governance for Food Security: Key Challenges and Relevant Debates
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Governance for food security: Key challenges and relevant debates
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Climate Change and Energy as New Major Factors Redefining the World Food Equation
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Climate change and energy as new major factors redefining the world food equation
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About this book
Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge is even more crucial given that we have not yet come close to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger.
Scientists and relevant stakeholders are now voicing a clear message: that multiple challenges the world is facing require innovative, multifaceted, science-based, technological, economic and political approaches in theoretical thinking, decision making and action. With this background central to survival and well-being, the purpose of this volume is to formulate and promote relevant theoretical analysis and policy recommendations. The major perspective of this publication is that paradigm and policy shifts at all levels are needed urgently. This is based on the evidence that agriculture in the 21st century will be undergoing significant demands, arising largely from the need to increase the global food enterprise, while adjusting and contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Global Food Insecurity aims at providing structure to effect achievement of this critically needed roadmap.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Food Insecurity
Book Subtitle: Rethinking Agricultural and Rural Development Paradigm and Policy
Editors: Mohamed Behnassi, Sidney Draggan, Sanni Yaya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0890-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0889-1Published: 31 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9228-9Published: 16 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0890-7Published: 29 March 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 408
Topics: Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Climate Change, Food Science, Energy Policy, Economics and Management