Human activity is changing the global environment at an
unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and
interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development,
human security and politics. Food security ranks high on the
science, policy and development agendas. However, most research
linking global change and food systems examines the impact of
climate change on agricultural production, or the impact of
agriculture on land use, pollution and biodiversity, overlooking
interactions with other aspects of the food system such as food
processing, packaging, transportation and consumption and
employment derived from these activities.
This book demonstrates that new threats to food security which
arise from environmental change require more than simply a focus on
agricultural practices what is needed is an integrated food system
approach. The authors point out that the process of adapting food
systems to global environmental change is not simply a search for
technological solutions to increase agricultural yields. Tradeoffs
across multiple scales among food system outcomes are a prevalent
feature of globalized food systems. Within food systems, there are
key underexplored areas that are both sensitive to environmental
change and crucial to understanding its implications for food
security and adaptation strategies.
The authors assert that technical prescriptions alone will not
efficiently manage the food security challenge. This book is their
contribution to a new paradigm, which addresses food systems
holistically by engaging researchers in multiple disciplines to
understand the causes and drivers of vulnerability."
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