Format:
1 online resource (216 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415816953
,
9781135067663
Series Statement:
Earthscan Food and Agriculture Series
Content:
In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations - in both the present and future - the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy lives. The author introduces a new Food and Human Security Index in an original attempt to better measure and quantify the affording qualities of food systems
Note:
Cover -- Title Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The journey ahead -- Part I: A failed project -- 2 Food security: a brief history -- Calorie-ization of food security -- Neoliberalization of food security -- Empty calorie-ization of food security -- Part II: Pieces missed -- 3 Well- being and nutrition -- Life expectancy -- Subjective indicators of well-being -- Aggregate well-being indicators -- Nutritional well-being -- 4 Sustainability -- Greenhouse gas emissions -- Energy consumption -- Water -- Waste -- Meat -- Environmental Performance Index: agriculture -- 5 Food sovereignty, safety, and access -- Farmer dependency -- Constricting consumer choice -- Food safety -- Import dependency -- Part III: Looking forward -- 6 The Food and Human Security Index -- Individual and societal well-being -- Ecological sustainability -- Potential for food independence -- Nutritional well-being -- Freedom in agrifood chain -- Results -- 7 Lessons learned -- From green revolution to rainbow evolutions -- So what can we eat if not GDP? -- Food security as a process (not a thing) -- Towards a new social imaginary -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Carolan, Michael S. Reclaiming Food Security Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415816953
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
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