Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Behnassi, Mohamed (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pollmann, Olaf (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kissinger, Gabrielle (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Renewable energy resources.; Physical geography.; Public health.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Agricultural economics.; Social sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Earth System Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Agricultural Economics.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Public Health.

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 du...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I Combating Food Insecurity: A Global Responsibility
• 1 Managing Food Systems, Climate Change and Related Challenges to Ensure Sustainable Food Security: The Urgent Need of a Paradigm and Policy Shift
• 2 The Meat Crisis: The ethical dimensions of animal welfare, climate change, and future sustainability
• 3 Dietary options for climate change mitigation
• 4 Linking Forests and Food Production in the REDD+ Context
• Part II Managing Linkages between Climate Change and Food Security
• 5 Gender, Climate Change and Household Food Security: A South Asian
• 6 The Threats of Climate Change: Implication for Food Crisis in sub Sahara Africa
• 7 Climate Change and Food Security in Kano Nigeria: A Model for Sustainable Food Production
• 8 Climate Change and Food Insecurity: Institutional Barriers to Adaptation of Marginal Groups in the Far-Western Region of Nepal
• 9 The Impacts of Climatic Variability and Change on Subsistent Crops in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Cameroon-Options for Adaptation
• Part III Food Security and Food Production and Consumption Patterns
• 10 Productive Potential of Urban Agriculture Towards Food Security: Evidence from Southwest Nigeria
• 11 The Role of Bahrain Local Production Systems in Ensuring Sustainable Food Security
• 12 General View Point, Perception and Acceptance of Organic Food Products among Urban Consumers in the Thai Marketplace
• 13 Food Diversity and Nutritional status in Schoolchildren in Morocco
• 14 Local or Indigenous Chicken Production: A Key to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Disease Mitigation and Socio-Cultural Fulfillment in Africa
• 15 Responding to Food Production Challenges at the Face of Global Warming at Community Level in Kenya: The Role of a Local University
• Part IV Enhancing Food Security by Innovation: Selected Successful Practices
• 16 Food Security in Knowledge-Based Economy: Role of Trans-National Seed Corporations
• 17 Food Security Constraints and Role of Biosaline Agriculture in Meeting Food Demand in the Gulf States
• 18 Land Use Change and Food Security: Has Introduction of Rice Production in Cotton Zone in Benin Met Optimal Allocation of Resources by Households?
• 19 Oil Palm Expansion: Competing Claim of Lands for Food, Biofuels, and Conservation
• 20 Potential and Deployment of Innovative Raised Bed Over Conventional Planting System in Wheat (Triticum Aestivum l.) to Defeat Hunger
• Postface
• Index.