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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 is unique in that it will bring together analyses of these different factors that impact on food security.

This volume will describe a range of different perspectives on food security, with...

Tan Chau district is the area most heavily flooded and most affected by river bank erosion by annual floods in An Giang province. The floods have caused considerable and serious damage to humans and property in the district. As in other flooded provinces in the Mekong Delta, An Giang Government implements a program for stabilizing livelihoods and promoting sustainable improvements of the lives of communities "living with floods" by building residential clusters and dykes in order to solve the damage in the longer term. This is a new program, and there have been studies by Ausaid and Care on...