Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)

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 systems to global environmental change, which demands the engagement of many disciplines - a new, sustainable food security paradigm.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	2013
Editors:	Mohamed Behnassi • Olaf Pollmann • Gabrielle Kissinger
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	338
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
ISBN-13:	978-9401783613
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > General Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Promotions
LSN:	9401783616
Barcode:	9789401783613

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