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Novel exploration of food security in a developed nation, pertaining to problems faced by a growing population and resource management challenges
Discusses how food security is related to technical, social, and moral issues in a society
Multi-disciplinary team of authors illustrates the complexity of food security
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Food Equity and Access
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Front Matter
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FOOD EQUITY AND ACCESS
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Food Production, Policy and Trade
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Front Matter
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FOOD PRODUCTION, POLICY AND TRADE
About this book
This book considers the ability and capacity of the food supply system in Australia to provide food security for the ever-increasing domestic and international population in the face of growing challenges in production, resource supply and failures within the food system itself. Although Australia is a net food exporting country, domestic food insecurity exists and will increase as food prices rise in the coming decades. An overview of the food supply system highlights the main challenges that are determining the future. Many of these challenges can be resolved by the Australian government, but others are in the hands of global governance to which Australia can only adapt. This book sheds light on the challenges and discusses the prospects for developing more sustainable and resilient future food systems in Australia. In addition, it covers food security and sovereignty issues under the heading of “food equity and access,” “food production, policy and trade,” and “impacts of land use planning on agriculture.”
The unique features of the book include the following:
• Most literature on food security pertains to developing countries. By way of contrast, this book explores food security in a developed nation (Australia) that seemingly should not have food security issues. The topics covered in the book are relevant to other developed nations with growing populations and resource management challenges.
• The book chapters are written by specialists to paint a comprehensive picture of the political, social, economic and environmental issues that give rise to food insecurity, and the challenges these issues present to the security of the food system in coming decades. The overall organization of the book uses a theoretically informed and multi-disciplinary approach. This enables a critical and in-depth analysis of food security by outlining the key challenges as well as prospects for the development of more sustainable and resilient agri-food systems.
• The three principal topics in the book are dealt with by a multi-disciplinary team of authors in a way that teases out diverse points of view illustrating the complexity of food security. Author disciplines include health and nutrition, agriculture, ethics, social science, law, and practitioners managing food aid programs.
• The book shows how food security relates to many technical, social and moral issues in society and how it is possible to develop successful programs to improve food security.
Editors and Affiliations
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17 The Grange, East Malvern, Australia
Quentin Farmar-Bowers
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, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Vaughan Higgins
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, School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
Joanne Millar
About the editors
Quentin Farmar-Bowers has worked in agriculture, public policy and natural resource management since 1971. His previous book was Making Sustainable Development Ideas Operational: A General Technique for Policy Development.
Vaughan Higgins is Associate Professor of Sociology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Recent books include Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing (with Wendy Larner) and Rural Governance: International Perspectives (with Lynda Cheshire and Geoffrey Lawrence).
Joanne Millar is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning and Policy at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Joanne has published in Demographic Change in Rural Australia: Implications for Society and Environment and the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Security in Australia
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Prospects for the Future
Editors: Quentin Farmar-Bowers, Vaughan Higgins, Joanne Millar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4484-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4483-1Published: 29 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9803-3Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4484-8Published: 28 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 476
Topics: Food Science, Social Policy, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Agriculture