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Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change

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Editors:
  1. Mohamed Behnassi

    1. Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Agadir, Morocco

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  2. Olaf Pollmann

    1. SCENSO GbR - Scientific Env. Solutions, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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  3. Gabrielle Kissinger

    1. Lexeme Consulting, Vancouver, Canada

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  • Offers a detailed theoretical and practical exploration of linkages between climate change and food security
  • Explains the complex web of interactions between food security, food production, consumption patterns, and food system governance
  • Goes beyond production and distribution of food to discuss such neglected topics as food processing, packaging, transportation and consumption
  • Case studies show how to tackle the challenges of food security

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxix
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  3. Managing Linkages Between Climate Change and Food Security

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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  4. Managing Linkages Between Climate Change and Food Security

    1. Gender, Climate Change and Household Food Security: A South Asian Perspective

      • Nira Ramachandran
      Pages 69-83

    2. The Threats of Climate Change: Implication for Food Crisis in Sub-Sahara Africa

      • Olubunmi Lawrence Balogun, Sulaiman Adesina Yusuf, Kayode Ayantoye
      Pages 85-98

    3. Climate Change and Food Security in Kano Nigeria: A Model for Sustainable Food Production

      • Salisu Lawal Halliru
      Pages 99-113

    4. Climate Change and Food Insecurity: Institutional Barriers to Adaptation of Marginal Groups in the Far-Western Region of Nepal

      • Nirmal Kumar Bishokarma, Sagar Raj Sharma
      Pages 115-130

    5. The Impacts of Climatic Change and Options for Adaptation on Some Subsistence Crops in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of Cameroon

      • Prosper Somah Techoro, Michael Schmidt
      Pages 131-156

  5. Food Security and Food Production and Consumption Patterns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Productive Potential of Urban Agriculture Towards Food Security: Evidence from Southwest Nigeria

      • Oluremi Akintayo, Babatunde Oyewole
      Pages 159-174

    3. The Role of Bahrain Local Food Production System in Ensuring Sustainable Food Security

      • Salma Saeed Ahmed Bani
      Pages 175-185

    4. General View Point, Perception and Acceptance of Organic Food Products Among Urban Consumers in the Thai Marketplace

      • Seksak Chouichom, Lawrence M. Liao, Masahiro Yamao
      Pages 187-201

    5. Food Diversity and Nutritional Status in School Children in Morocco

      • Youssef Aboussaleh, Ahmed Ahami, Mohamed Afechtal
      Pages 203-215

    6. Local or Indigenous Chicken Production: A Key to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Disease Mitigation and Socio-Cultural Fulfilment in Africa

      • Kolawole Daniel Afolabi
      Pages 217-229

    7. Responding to Food Production Challenges in the Face of Global Warming at Community Level in Kenya: The Role of a Local University

      • Jokastah Kalungu, Walter Leal, Moses Mwangi
      Pages 231-241

  6. Enhancing Food Security by Innovation: Selected Successful Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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About this book

This volume discusses a broad range of vital issues encompassing the production and consumption of food in the current period of climate change. All of these add up to looming, momentous challenges to food security, especially for people in regions where malnutrition and famine have been the norm during numerous decades. Furthermore, threats to food security do not stop at the borders of more affluent countries – governance of food systems and changes in eating patterns will have worldwide consequences. The book is arranged in four broad sections. Part I, Combating Food Insecurity: A Global Responsibility opens with a chapter describing the urgent necessity for new paradigm and policy set to meet the food security challenges of climate change. Also in this section are chapters on meat and the dimensions of animal welfare, climate change and sustainability; on dietary options for mitigating climate change; and the linkage of forest and food production in the context of the REDD+ approach to valuation of forests. Part II, Managing Linkages Between Climate Change and Food Security offers a South Asian perspective on Gender, Climate Change and Household Food Security; a chapter on food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa; and separate chapters on critical issues of food supply and production in Nigeria, far-Western Nepal and the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Cameroon. Part III examines Food Security and patterns of production and consumption, with chapters focused on Morocco, Thailand, Bahrain, Kenya and elsewhere. The final section discusses successful, innovative practices, with chapters on Food Security in Knowledge-Based Economy; Biosaline Agriculture in the Gulf States; Rice production in a cotton zone of Benin; palm oil in the production of biofuel; and experiments in raised-bed wheat production. The editors argue that technical prescriptions are insufficient to manage the food security challenge. They propose and explain a holistic approach for adapting food systemsto global environmental change, which demands the engagement of many disciplines – a new, sustainable food security paradigm.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Agadir, Morocco

    Mohamed Behnassi

  • SCENSO GbR - Scientific Env. Solutions, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Olaf Pollmann

  • Lexeme Consulting, Vancouver, Canada

    Gabrielle Kissinger

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