Format:
1 online resource (169 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415638234
,
9781136189661
Series Statement:
Earthscan Food and Agriculture Series
Content:
In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides an overview of the new global challenges connected with land, food supply and agriculture. It does not simply raise the debate; rather it aspires to move forward the debate that has started with the G20 meetings
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of illustrations -- Introduction and acknowledgements -- PART I: Food insecurity -- 1 There are more of us -- we're better off. And now? -- The return of scarcity -- From the land to the city -- Stomach and reservoir -- One revolution to complete and one to build -- 2 Nature calling -- The value of diversity -- The consistency of water -- The climatic 'unknown' -- An unsustainable waste -- 3 Reckoning with instability -- Sensitive markets -- The interaction between climate and energy -- The role of reserves -- One ban too many -- Speculating on speculation? -- Three crises, only one alarm -- Who pays for 'agflation'? -- Interview with Franz Fischler (Former European Commissioner for Agriculture) -- PART II: Everyone's problem -- 4 Fat cows, lean cows -- The new commercial order -- The weight of growth -- Bread and democracy -- A bitter awakening -- 5 Land ahoy! -- The deal of the century -- Soil, the last refuge -- Who's buying and who's selling -- State intervention -- Private initiatives -- An 'unconventional factor of insecurity' -- Best practice -- Investment and human rights -- Interview with Michael Taylor (International Land Coalition programme manager) -- PART III: A global policy for food security -- 6 Starting from G20 -- Contributions -- Policy-makers taking responsibility -- More research and greater courage to change -- An ever greener revolution -- The rules on trade -- More transparency, more efficiency -- Working hypotheses on reserves, biofuels and help for the poor -- Managing the risk -- Between protection and liberalisation -- Notes -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version De Castro, Paolo The Politics of Land and Food Scarcity Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415638234
Language:
English
Keywords:
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