The evolving sphere of food security
By: edited by Rosamond L. Naylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780199354054
Subjects: Food security
Description: A multidisciplinary group of scholars present the many faces and facets of global food insecurity - their symptoms, roots, and possible remedies - through personal stories of research and policy advising at local and global scales. The authors explore the interconnectedness of food security and energy, water, climate, health, and national security as well as its policy implications.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The many faces of food security  -- Rosamond L. Naylor; title: Food security for the poorest billion : policy lessons from Indonesia  -- Walter P. Falcon; title: The food security roots of the middle-income trap  -- Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, and Xiaobing Wang; title: Institutions, interests, and incentives in American food and agriculture policy  -- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, David Lazarus, Walter P. Falcon, and Rosamond L. Naylor; title: Political economy of EU agricultural and food policies and its role in global food security  -- Johan Swinnen; title: Creating synergies between water, energy, and food security for smallholders  -- Jennifer A. Burney; title: Health and development at the food-water nexus  -- Jennifer Davis, Eran Bendavid, Amy J. Pickering, and Rosamond L. Naylor; title: Land institutions and food security in sub-Saharan Africa  -- Whitney L. Smith and Rosamond L. Naylor; title: Food energy, and climate connections in a global economy  -- David B. Lobell, Rosamond L. Naylor, and Christopher B. Field; title: Agricultural nutrient use and its environmental consequences  -- Peter M. Vitousek and Pamela A. Matson; title: Water institutions and agriculture  -- Barton H. Thompson, Jr.; title: Global agriculture and land use changes in the twenty-first century : achieving a balance between food security, urban diets, and nature conservation  -- Ximena Rueda and Eric F. Lambin; title: Food and security  -- Stephen John Stedman; title: From politics to farm plots : a field perspective on food security -- Rosamond L. Naylor.