New Challenges to Food Security: From Climate Change to Fragile States

ISBN-13: 9780415822565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 364 str.

Ian Christoplos

Opis

Food security is high on the political agenda. Fears about societal insecurity due to food price increases and hunger, grave scenarios regarding the effects of climate change and general uncertainty about the impacts of investments in biofuels and so-call 'land grabbing' on food prices and availability have meant that food security is now recognised as being a multifaceted challenge. This book brings together analyses of these different factors that impact on food security.

Spis treści

Part 1 Conceptual overview 1.Introduction.  2. Food security and food crises: evolving realities, evolving debates. Part 2 New Trends and Challenges  3. Scenarios for global agriculture and food security towards 2050: a review of recent studies.  4. Strengthening food security through human rights: a moral and legal imperative and practical opportunity.  5. Large scale land acquisitions -- challenges, conflicts and partial solutions in a project lifecycle perspective.  6. Water competition, water governance and food security.  7. Food insecurity in fragile states and protracted crises.  Part 2 Case Studies 8. Sudan’s permanent food emergency: a historical analysis of food aid, governance and political economy.  9. Food insecurity and agricultural rehabilitation in post-conflict northern Uganda.  10. Poverty, food security and local water conflicts in southern Zambia.  11. State capacity and malnutrition: a critical analysis of capacity support to Sierra Leone's nutrition sector.  12. Social inequality and food insecurity in Nepal: risks and responses.  13. Changing approaches to food security in Viet Nam.  14. Food security and insecurity in Afghanistan.  15. Food security and insecurity in India.  16. South Korea: food security, development and the developmental state.  17. Food security, Nicaragua: food purchase or food production, which is best for the rural poor? Part 4 Conclusions 18. Towards new approaches.