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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.
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.
This book discusses ways to deepen the debate on the linkages
between global risks and human and environmental security. The
approach put forward in this book is one of questioning the ability
of existing concepts, regulatory frameworks, technologies and
decision-making mechanisms to accurately deal with emerging risks
to human and environmental security, and to act in the direction of
effectively managing their impacts and fostering the resilience of
concerned systems and resources. Empirical research findings from
Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands are provided. During the last
decades the links between emerging risks and the security of humans
and nature have been the object of considerable research and
deliberations. However, it is only recently becoming an important
focus of policy making and advocacy. In this contributed volume, it
is presumed that the ability - or lack thereof - to make innovative
conceptual frameworks, institutional and policy arrangements, and
technological advances for managing the current emerging risks,
will foster or undermine the environmental security, and
consequently determine the future human security. Moreover, taking
into account the links between environmental/climate security,
human security and sustainability will help frame a new research
agenda and potentially develop a broad range of responses to many
delicate questions.
This book discusses ways to deepen the debate on the linkages
between global risks and human and environmental security. The
approach put forward in this book is one of questioning the ability
of existing concepts, regulatory frameworks, technologies and
decision-making mechanisms to accurately deal with emerging risks
to human and environmental security, and to act in the direction of
effectively managing their impacts and fostering the resilience of
concerned systems and resources. Empirical research findings from
Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands are provided. During the last
decades the links between emerging risks and the security of humans
and nature have been the object of considerable research and
deliberations. However, it is only recently becoming an important
focus of policy making and advocacy. In this contributed volume, it
is presumed that the ability - or lack thereof - to make innovative
conceptual frameworks, institutional and policy arrangements, and
technological advances for managing the current emerging risks,
will foster or undermine the environmental security, and
consequently determine the future human security. Moreover, taking
into account the links between environmental/climate security,
human security and sustainability will help frame a new research
agenda and potentially develop a broad range of responses to many
delicate questions.
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