Format:
Online-Ressource (1 electronic text (xvii, 267 p. : ill.))
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digital file
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781554581924
Series Statement:
Studies in international governance series
Content:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Foreword, Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Food Crisis and Global Governance -- Part 1: The Causal Factors behind the Food Crisis -- 2. The Blame Game: Understanding Structural Causes of the Food Crisis -- 3. The 1974 and 2008 Food Price Crises: Déjà Vu? -- 4. Responding to Food Price Volatility and Vulnerability: Considering the Global Economic Context -- 5. US Biofuels Policy and the Global Food Price Crisis: A Survey of the Issues
Content:
Part 2: Immediate Governance Challenges and Proposals: Food Aid, Trade Measures, and International Grain Reserves -- 6. Responding to the 2008 "Food Crisis": Lessons from the Evolution of the Food Aid Regime -- 7. Preparing for an Uncertain Global Food Supply: A New Food Assistance Convention -- 8. From Food Handouts to Integrated Food Policies -- 9. The Uses of Crisis: Progress on Implementing US Local/Regional Procurement of Food Aid -- Part 3: Longer-Term Ecological Concerns and Governance Responses -- 10. The Impact of Climate Change on Nutrition
Content:
11. Fossil Energy and the Biophysical Roots of the Food Crisis -- 12. Setting the Global Dinner Table: Exploring the Limits of the Marketization of Food Security -- Part 4: Strategies to Promote Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture: The Way Ahead -- 13. A Stronger Global Architecture for Food and Agriculture: Some Lessons from FAO's History and Recent Evaluation -- 14. Improving the Effectiveness of US Assistance in Transforming the Food Security Outlook in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 15. Urban Agriculture and Changing Food Markets
Content:
16. Reorienting Local and Global Food Systems: Institutional Challenges and Policy Options from the UN Agricultural Assessment -- 17. The Governance Challenges of Improving Global Food Security -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Note:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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Co-published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation
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Issued as part of the Canadian electronic library publishers collection
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781554582754
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781554581924
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cohen, Marc J Global Food Crisis : Governance Challenges and Opportunities Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,c2008
Language:
English
Keywords:
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