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  title info:
    title: World agricultural resources and food security
    sub title: international food security
  name:
    name part: Schmitz, Andrew
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kennedy, P. Lynn
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Schmitz, Troy Gordon
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (418 pages).
  abstract: World agricultural resources will be altered by climate change which will require both public and private actions. Global agriculture is affected by invasive alien pest and disease species and by severe weather such as sea-level rise flooding and drought. Rising sea levels will increase salinity in coastal groundwater and the loss of coastal wetlands. Drought will increase the vulnerability of forest ecosystems due to decreased soil moisture and increased evapotranspiration. Many changes will be needed to maintain global food security. Climate change will affect food supply and demand, as well as prices. Research and development have the potential to impact both supply and demand, especially through the adoption of biotechnology. Researching plant and animal breeding for multiple disease resistance against pathogens of global relevance has great evolutionary potential. One such program is aquaculture. Another problem is land constraints as rural and urban areas compete for land. For rural food-insecure households, land competition means necessary changes in production practices. Research and development investments could substantially decelerate food prices to prevent hunger and deteriorating living standards in rural households worldwide. Increasing food security will mean establishing dietary guidelines that alleviate the negative health and economic outcomes associated with malnutrition. It is highly questionable to aggregate all food items based solely on calories per kilogram content when not all calories are equal in their effect on health. Food security also includes increasing diet diversity while decreasing food waste and loss. It is imperative that actions be taken for a food-secure future.
  table of contents: Prelims -- Assessing the impact of agricultural R&D investments on long-term projections of food security -- The nexus of dietary guidelines and food security -- Food security through biotechnology: the case of genetically modified sugar beets in the united states -- What would happen if we don't have GMO traits? -- Climate change and food security: threats and adaptation -- Climate change and food security: Florida's Agriculture in the coming decades -- Vegetable production, diseases, and climate change -- U.S. Agricultural policy: impacts on domestic and international food security -- Sugarcane yields and production: Florida and Louisiana -- Aquaculture: its role in the future of food -- Food security and the Food Safety Modernization Act -- Agricultural biotechnology and food security: Can CETA, TPP, and TTIP Become venues to facilitate trade in GM products? -- Assessing food security in Ethiopia -- The coffee-food security interface for subsistence households in Jimma Zone Ethiopia -- Assessing food security in rural Bangladesh: The role of a nonfarm economy -- Food costs during the food crisis: the case of Tanzania -- Food loss and waste as an economic and policy problem -- Index.
  note: edited by Andrew Schmitz, P. Lynn Kennedy, Troy G. Schmitz.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Food security
  subject:
    topic: Food supply
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics
    topic: Development
    topic: Economic Development
  subject:
    topic: Development economics & emerging economies
  classification: HD9000.5 .W67 2017
  classification: 338.19
  classification: 631
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Frontiers of economics and globalization ; 17
  identifier: 9781787145153
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S1574-8715201717
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 170815
    record change date: 20170815111805.0
    record identifier: 9781787145153
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng