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Category : Food security
Languages : en
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Sustainable Food Security in Central West Africa: Selected papers on food trade, infrastructure and food security
Author: Sustainable Food Security in West Africa
Author: W.K. Asenso-OkyerePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461561051
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Food security is defined as the ability of countries, regions, or households to meet their required levels of food consumption at all times. Food security is an important component of human welfare, and it can act as an indicator of a region's development. This book addresses the roles of trade, policy development, and economic cooperation in creating sustainable food security in the West African region. The largely micro-level analysis is conducted on empirical data from the household where decisions on production and consumption take place. Food security is discussed in terms of its component parts, namely: availability of food (production and trade), its accessibility (incomes and poverty status), and its utilisation (health and nutrition).
Sustainable Food Security in Central West Africa: Selected papers on sustainable food production and natural resources management
Author: Sustainable Food Security in Central West Africa: Selected papers on human resource development
Author: Sustainable Food Security in Central West Africa
Author: George BennehPublisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Innovations in Achieving Sustainable Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa
Author: Negatu, WorknehPublisher: OSSREA
ISBN: 9994455877
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
These papers address roles and issues related to social and institutional innovations and approaches in food security in Southern and Eastern Africa. They include implementation of food security policy, rural livelihood and agricultural innovation, land consolidation for food security, interdisciplinary school-based health for food security, harnessing indigenous and modern knowledge for food security, household food resource handling for food security, institutions for technological innovation, the role of land tax in food security, trade protectionism and food security, and gender-power relations in food security.
Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change
Author: Mohamed BehnassiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400767196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This volume discusses a broad range of vital issues encompassing the production and consumption of food in the current period of climate change. All of these add up to looming, momentous challenges to food security, especially for people in regions where malnutrition and famine have been the norm during numerous decades. Furthermore, threats to food security do not stop at the borders of more affluent countries – governance of food systems and changes in eating patterns will have worldwide consequences. The book is arranged in four broad sections. Part I, Combating Food Insecurity: A Global Responsibility opens with a chapter describing the urgent necessity for new paradigm and policy set to meet the food security challenges of climate change. Also in this section are chapters on meat and the dimensions of animal welfare, climate change and sustainability; on dietary options for mitigating climate change; and the linkage of forest and food production in the context of the REDD+ approach to valuation of forests. Part II, Managing Linkages Between Climate Change and Food Security offers a South Asian perspective on Gender, Climate Change and Household Food Security; a chapter on food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa; and separate chapters on critical issues of food supply and production in Nigeria, far-Western Nepal and the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Cameroon. Part III examines Food Security and patterns of production and consumption, with chapters focused on Morocco, Thailand, Bahrain, Kenya and elsewhere. The final section discusses successful, innovative practices, with chapters on Food Security in Knowledge-Based Economy; Biosaline Agriculture in the Gulf States; Rice production in a cotton zone of Benin; palm oil in the production of biofuel; and experiments in raised-bed wheat production. The editors argue that technical prescriptions are insufficient to manage the food security challenge. They propose and explain a holistic approach for adapting food systems to global environmental change, which demands the engagement of many disciplines – a new, sustainable food security paradigm.
Achieving Food Security in Southern Africa
Author: Lawrence James HaddadPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896293351
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Food Security and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa
Author: Scott DrimiePublisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796920287
Category : Food supply
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Southern Africa experienced acute food shortages during 2002 and 2003.
Approaches to World Food Security
Author: Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251013649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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