Vision Infinity for Food Security Some Whys, Why Nots and Hows! /

• Main Authors: Sharma, Shashi B. (Author), Wightman, John A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Agriculture,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Life Sciences.

This book builds on authors’ perspective on food security gathered from their global experience of working with farmers in their fields. They are standing back and looking at the global food security situation as a whole through squinted eyes and are concerned about vulnerability and fragility of fo...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Is there enough food?
• 3: Food security – how did we get to where we are now?
• 4: Are there fundamental constraints to food security?
• 5: Biosecure global food value chains
• 6: Exploit additional food sources
• 7: Eliminate food losses
• 8: Rethinking agro-ecosystems and diversity with farming systems
• 9: In search of answers – tying it all together
• 10: Way forward.