The feeding of nations
Subtitle: re-defining food security for the 21st century
By: Mark Gibson
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439839508
Subjects: Food security; Hunger; International cooperation; Food industry and trade; Food relief; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food security : what is it, how and who does it affect?; title: Food security : what is it?; title: By whose standards?; title: Popular definitions; title: Understanding food security; title: Confusion, consternation and contradiction; title: Measuring and monitoring the food insecure; title: Identifying the vulnerable; title: Food security : the global picture; title: History : a fledgling construct; title: Sociocultural evolution; title: Governance, philosophy, politics, and economics; title: Science, technology, and philosophy; title: History : twentieth century; title: Twentieth century : the feeding of nations : a new global enthusiasm; title: The inter-war years 1919-1939; title: World War Two : 1939-1945; title: The post-war years; title: The development decade : 1960s; title: Famine, oil, and the food crisis : 1970s; title: The lost development decade : 1980s; title: The era of the conference : 1990s; title: The twenty-first century : ideological convergence?; title: A sectoral analysis : food security and; title: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; title: Science and technology; title: Socio-cultural; title: Health and nutrition; title: Environment and natural resources; title: Governance, politics, and economics; title: Final analysis : food security; title: Causality and future research; title: Redefining food security; title: Food for thought : discussion and considerations.