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The handbook of food research

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The last twenty years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food supply; what cookery books can (and cannot) tell us; changing understandings of…

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Food security and global environmental change

by Ericksen, Polly, Ingram, John

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Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods. As this book shows, at the same time, agriculture and related …

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Agrobiodiversity and the law: regulating genetic resources, food security and c…

by Santilli, Juliana

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This book analyzes the impact of the legal system on agrobiodiversity (or agricultural biodiversity) - the diversity of agricultural species, varieties and ecosystems. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it takes up the emerging concept of agrobiodiversity and its relationship…

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Agricultural input subsidies: the recent Malawi experience

by Dorward, Andrew, Chirwa, Ephraim W., (Ephraim Wadonda)

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Agricultural input subsidies have been adopted on a large scale across different African countries in the last few years. However global experience with input subsidies has been mixed, and there is considerable concern that current input subsidies will turn out to be expensive …

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Climate change as a security risk

by Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (Germany)

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For Policy-makers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental change in security discourse -- 2.1. Redefining security -- 2.2. Current security policy strategies -- 2.3. WBGU's aims and use of terms -- 3. Known conflict impacts of environmental change -- 3.1. State of conflict resear…

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Edible insects: future prospects for food and feed security

by Huis, Arnold van

fromFAO forestry paper

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This book draws on a wide range of scientific research on the contribution that insects make to ecosystems, diets, food security and livelihoods in both developed and developing countries.

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Farming systems and poverty: improving farmers' livelihoods in a changing world

by World Bank, Dixon, John A., Gibbon, David P., Gulliver, Aidan, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.

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Halving hunger: it can be done

by Yuksel, Nalan, Sánchez, Pedro A., Swaminathan, M. S., (Monkombu Sambasivan), Dobie, Philip, UN Millennium Project., Task Force on Hunger

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The Millennium Development Goals adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015--income poverty hunger disease exclusion lack of infrastructure and shelter-while promoting gender equali…

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Food and fuel: the example of Brazil

by Neves, Marcos Fava

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This book is a contribution of the authors to the food - fuel debate. During 2007 and 2008 several factors led to the food inflation problem: growing population, income distribution, urbanization, biofuel, social programs, production scarcity etc. Biofuel got most of the blame…

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Food security in Africa and Asia: strategies for small-scale agricultural developme…

by Bakker, H., (Henk)

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This book builds on the premise that food security in low-income countries may be achieved through sustained effort by the local small-scale and subsistence farming communities, with the active support from local, national and international agencies. It states that any such effo…

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Water for food in a changing world

by Ingram, Helen M., Garrido, Alberto

fromContributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Wat…

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Our thirst for water grows with our population, but the amount of fresh water available on Earth is fixed. This book explores water and food production at global and regional scales. The collection offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant issues.

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Environmental impacts of modern agriculture

by Harrison, Roy M., Hester, R. E., (Ronald E.)

fromIssues in environmental science and technology

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"Modern agriculture must seek to feed the world's growing population with little or no cost to the Environment. Modern agriculture is capable of producing greater yields than ever before, but intensification of agriculture does come at a price. This comprehensive volume examines…

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Soils and food security

by Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), Harrison, Roy M., Hester, Ronald E.

fromIssues in environmental science and technology

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This book examines the current status of soils across the globe and their potential for food production to meet the needs of the World's population in the 21st Century. Threats, such as the degradation, pollution and erosion of soil are discussed, along with the possible consequ…

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Living with AIDS in Uganda: impacts on banana-farming households in two distr…

by Karuhanga Beraho, Monica

fromAWLAE series

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This book was originally written as a doctoral dissertation. The research in this book was carried out among banana-farming households in the districts of Masaka and Kabarole in Uganda. A gendered livelihood approach was used. The research focused on the identification of critic…

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Food, diversity, vulnerability and social change: research findings from insular Southeast Asia

by Niehof, Anke

fromMansholt publication series

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Food is a universal basic need. The diverse ways in which people and households try to meet this need, the constraints they are up against in doing so, and the strategies they develop to reduce their vulnerability to food insecurity form the core of this book. A large range of…