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Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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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.
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