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Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability (Hardcover, New)
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Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability (Hardcover, New)
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Global food price spikes in 2008 and again in 2011 coincided with a
surge of political unrest in low- and middle-income countries.
Angry consumers took to the streets in scores of nations. In some
places, food riots turned violent, pressuring governments and in a
few cases contributed to their overthrow. Foreign investors sparked
a new global land rush, adding a different set of pressures. With
scientists cautioning that the world has entered a new era of
steadily rising food prices, perhaps aggravated by climate change,
the specter of widespread food insecurity and sociopolitical
instability weighs on policymakers worldwide. In the past few
years, governments and philanthropic foundations began redoubling
efforts to resuscitate agricultural research and technology
transfer, as well as to accelerate the modernization of food value
chains to deliver high quality food inexpensively, faster, and in
greater volumes to urban consumers. But will these efforts suffice?
This volume explores the complex relationship between food security
and sociopolitical stability up to roughly 2025. Organized around a
series of original essays by leading global technical experts, a
key message of this volume is that actions taken in an effort to
address food security stressors may have consequences for food
security, stability, or both that ultimately matter far more than
the direct impacts of biophysical drivers such as climate or land
or water scarcity. The means by which governments, firms, and
private philanthropies tackle the food security challenge of the
coming decade will fundamentally shape the relationship between
food security and sociopolitical stability.
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