Overview
- Editors:
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Mohamed Behnassi
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Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Agadir, Morocco
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Olaf Pollmann
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SCENSO GbR - Scientific Env. Solutions, Sankt Augustin, Germany
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Gabrielle Kissinger
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Lexeme Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
- 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)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxxix
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Combating Food Insecurity: A Global Responsibility
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Managing Linkages Between Climate Change and Food Security
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Managing Linkages Between Climate Change and Food Security
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- Olubunmi Lawrence Balogun, Sulaiman Adesina Yusuf, Kayode Ayantoye
Pages 85-98
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- Nirmal Kumar Bishokarma, Sagar Raj Sharma
Pages 115-130
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- Prosper Somah Techoro, Michael Schmidt
Pages 131-156
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Food Security and Food Production and Consumption Patterns
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Front Matter
Pages 157-157
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- Oluremi Akintayo, Babatunde Oyewole
Pages 159-174
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- Seksak Chouichom, Lawrence M. Liao, Masahiro Yamao
Pages 187-201
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- Youssef Aboussaleh, Ahmed Ahami, Mohamed Afechtal
Pages 203-215
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- Jokastah Kalungu, Walter Leal, Moses Mwangi
Pages 231-241
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Enhancing Food Security by Innovation: Selected Successful Practices
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Front Matter
Pages 243-243
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
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Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Agadir, Morocco
Mohamed Behnassi
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SCENSO GbR - Scientific Env. Solutions, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Olaf Pollmann
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Lexeme Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
Gabrielle Kissinger