Overview
- Explains why we need to look beyond agriculture and trade and embrace a holistic food systems perspective
- Broaches an array of issues relating to resilience and food security, including gender, climate change, and COVID-19
- Appeals to a broad audience, from academics to policymakers, students to practitioners
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy (AEFP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and critically the contribution of the concept of resilience in advancing our understanding and ability to design and implement development interventions in relation to food security and humanitarian crises. For this, the book departs from the narrow beaten tracks of agriculture and trade, which have influenced the mainstream debate on food security for nearly 60 years, and adopts instead a wider, more holistic perspective, framed around food systems. The foundation for this new approach is the recognition that in the current post-globalization era, the food and nutritional security of the world’s population no longer depends just on the performance of agriculture and policies on trade, but rather on the capacity of the entire (food) system to produce, process, transport and distribute safe, affordable and nutritious food for all, in ways that remain environmentally sustainable. In that context, adopting a food system perspective provides a more appropriate frame as it incites to broaden the conventional thinking and to acknowledge the systemic nature of the different processes and actors involved. This book is written for a large audience, from academics to policymakers, students to practitioners.
This is an open access book.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephen Devereux is a development economist who works on famine, food security and social protection, with a focus on Africa. His work experience includes three years heading a Rural Research Programme at the University of Namibia and one year researching household drought responses in rural Ghana. He has been a Fellow of the Instituteof Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex since 1996, where he co-founded the Centre for Social Protection in 2005. In 2016 he was awarded a South Africa-UK Bilateral Research Chair in Social Protection for Food Security by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Newton Fund, affiliated to the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context
Editors: Christophe Béné, Stephen Devereux
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23535-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23534-4Published: 26 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23537-5Published: 26 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23535-1Published: 25 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-3889
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3897
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 413
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development, Emerging Markets/Globalization, International Economics