Food Security and Global Environmental Change 1st Edition by John Ingram, Polly Ericksen, Diana Liverman 9781849711272 1849711275

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ISBN 10: 1849711275

ISBN 13: 9781849711272

Author: John Ingram, Polly Ericksen, Diana Liverman

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 activities also contribute to GEC by, for example, intensifying greenhouse gas emissions and altering the land surface. Responses aimed at adapting to GEC may have negative consequences for food security, just as measures taken to increase food security may exacerbate GEC. The authors show that this complex and dynamic relationship between GEC and food security is also influenced by additional factors; food systems are heavily influenced by socioeconomic conditions, which in turn are affected by multiple processes such as macro-level economic policies, political conflicts and other important drivers. The book provides a major, accessible synthesis of the current state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between GEC and food security. Most other books addressing the subject concentrate on the links between climate change and agricultural production, and do not extend to an analysis of the wider food system which underpins food security; this book addresses the broader issues, based on a novel food system concept and stressing the need for actions at a regional, rather than just an international or local, level. It reviews new thinking which has emerged over the last decade, analyses research methods for stakeholder engagement and for undertaking studies at the regional level, and looks forward by reviewing a number of emerging ‘hot topics’ in the food security-GEC debate which help set new agendas for the research community at large. Published with Earth System Science Partnership, GECAFS and SCOPE

Table of contents:

Part 1: Food Security and Global Environmental Change
Chapter 1: Food Security and the Global Environment: an Overview
Chapter 2: The Value of the Food Systems Approach
Chapter 3: Lessons Learned from International Assessments
Chapter 4: Part I Main Messages

Part 2: Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation in Food Systems
Chapter 5: Vulnerability and Resilience of Food Systems
Chapter 6: What is Vulnerable?
Chapter 7: Vulnerability to What?
Chapter 8: Adapting Food Systems
Chapter 9: Part 2 Main Messages

Part 3: Engaging Stakeholders
Chapter 10: The Science-Policy Interface
Chapter 11: Engaging Stakeholders at the Regional Level
Chapter 12: Part 3 Main Messages

Part 4: A Regional Approach
Chapter 13: Why Regions?
Chapter 14: Stakeholders’ Approaches to Regional Food Security Research
Chapter 15: Undertaking Research at the Regional Level
Chapter 16: Part 4 Main Messages

Part 5: Food Systems in a Changing World
Chapter 17: Food, Violence and Human Rights
Chapter 18: Governance Beyond the State: Non-state Actors and Food Systems
Chapter 19: Green Food Systems for 9 Billion
Chapter 20: Surprises and Possibilities
Chapter 21: Part 5 Main Messages
Chapter 22: Reflection on the Book

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