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Reclaiming Food Security (Paperback)
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Reclaiming Food Security (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
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In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any
food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories
possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and
nations - in both the present and future - the capabilities to
prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy lives. For a variety of
reasons, food security has come to be synonymous with cheap calorie
security. On this measure, the last fifty years have been a
remarkable success. But the author shows that these cheap calories
have also come at great cost, to the environment, individual and
societal well-being, human health, and the food sovereignty of
nations. The book begins by reviewing the concept of food security,
particularly as it has been enacted within agrifood and
international policy over the last century. After proposing a
coherent definition the author then assesses empirically whether
these policies have actually made us and the environment any better
off. One of the many ways the author accomplishes this task is by
introducing the Food and Human Security Index (FHSI) in an original
attempt to better measure and quantify the affording qualities of
food systems. A FHSI score is calculated for 126 countries based on
indicators of objective and subjective well-being, nutrition,
ecological sustainability, food dependency, and food system market
concentration. The final FHSI ranking produces many
counter-intuitive results. Why, for example, does Costa Rica top
the ranking, while the United States comes in at number fifty-five?
The author concludes by arguing for the need to reclaim food
security by returning the concept to something akin to its original
spirit, identified earlier in the book. While starting at the level
of the farm the concluding chapter focuses most of its attention
beyond the farm gate, recognizing that food security is more than
just about issues surrounding production. For example, space is
made in this chapter to address the important question of, "What
can we eat if not GDP?" We need, the author contends, a thoroughly
sociological rendering of food security: a position that views food
security not as a thing - or an end in itself - but as a process
that ought to make people and the Planet better off.
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