The Evolving Sphere of Food Security
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-935406-1 (ISBN)
Hundreds of millions of people still suffer from chronic hunger and food insecurity despite sufficient levels of global food production. The poor's inability to afford adequate diets remains the biggest constraint to solving hunger, but the dynamics of global food insecurity are complex and demand analysis that extends beyond the traditional domains of economics and agriculture. How do the policies used to promote food security in one country affect nutrition, food access, natural resources, and national security in other countries? How do the priorities and challenges of achieving food security change over time as countries develop economically? The Evolving Sphere of Food Security seeks to answer these two important questions and others by exploring the interconnections of food security to security of many kinds: energy, water, health, climate, the environment, and national security.
Through personal stories of research in the field and policy advising at local and global scales, a multidisciplinary group of scholars provide readers with a real-world sense of the opportunities and challenges involved in alleviating food insecurity. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, management of HIV/AIDS, the establishment of an equitable system of land property rights, and investment in solar-powered irrigation play an important role in improving food security---particularly in the face of global climate change. Meanwhile, food price spikes associated with the United States' biofuels policy continue to have spillover effects on the world's rural poor with implications for stability and national security.
The Evolving Sphere of Food Security traces four key areas of the food security field: 1) the political economy of food and agriculture; 2) challenges for the poorest billion; 3) agriculture's dependence on resources and the environment; and 4) food in a national and international security context. This book connects these areas in a way that tells an integrated story about human lives, resource use, and the policy process.
An economist by training, Rosamond (Roz) Naylor directs the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University and is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science. She works with colleagues from several disciplines to study the economic and biophysical dimensions of food security and the environmental impacts of crop and animal production around the world. Roz' work provides her with the opportunity to explore cultures, farming practices, and policies in a wide variety of countries. She has served as an advisor to the McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program and currently serves on Advisory Committees for the Beijer Institute in Stockholm, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, and The Nature Conservancy. She is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow and a Pew Marine Fellow. At Stanford, Roz teaches courses on the world food economy, human society and environmental change, and food security.
Foreword ; Kofi Annan ; I) INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Many Faces of Food Security ; Rosamond L. Naylor ; II) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ; 2. Food Security for the Poorest Billion: Policy Lessons from Indonesia ; Walter P. Falcon ; 3. The Food Security Roots of the Middle Income Trap ; Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, and Xiaobing Wang ; 4. Institutions, Interests, and Incentives in American Food and Agriculture ; Policy ; Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, David Lazarus, Walter Falcon, and Rosamond L. Naylor ; 5. Political Economy of EU Agricultural and Food Policies and Global Food Security ; Johan Swinnen ; III) CHALLENGES FOR THE POOREST BILLION ; 6. Creating Synergies Between Water, Energy, and Food Security for Smallholders ; Jennifer Burney ; 7. Health and Development at the Food-Water Nexus ; Jennifer Davis, Eran Bendavid, Amy J. Pickering, and Rosamond L. Naylor ; 8. Land Institutions and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa ; Whitney L. Smith and Rosamond L. Naylor ; IV) AGRICULTURE'S DEPENDENCE ON RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT ; 9. Food, Energy, and Climate Connections in a Global Economy ; David B. Lobell, Rosamond L. Naylor, and Christopher B. Field ; 10. Agricultural Nutrient Use and Its Environmental Consequences ; Peter A. Vitousek and Pamela A. Matson ; 11. Water Institutions and Agriculture ; Barton H. Thompson, Jr. ; 12. Global Agriculture and Land Use Changes in the 21st Century: Achieving a Balance Between Food Security, Urban Diet, and Nature Conservation ; Ximena Rueda and Eric F. Lambin ; V. FOOD IN A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CONTEXT ; 13. Food and Security ; Stephan John Stedman ; 14. From Politics to Farm Plots: A Field Perspective on Food Security ; Rosamond L. Naylor ; Glossary ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.10.2014 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 163 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-935406-5 / 0199354065 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-935406-1 / 9780199354061 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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