Food security and sociopolitical stability / Edited by Christopher B. Barrett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Political aspects.

Food supply.

Food security.

Agriculture and politics.

Physical Description:

xx, 489 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Food security & sociopolitical stability

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Food or consequences: food security and its implications for global sociopolitical stability / Christopher B. Barrett

The future of the global food economy: scenarios for supply, demand, and prices / Mark W. Rosegrant, Simla Tokgoz, and Prapti Bhandary

What do we know about the climate of the next decade? / Mark A. Cane and Dong Eun Lee

The global land rush / Klaus Deininger

Global freshwater and food security in the face of potential adversity / Upmanu Lall

Managing marine resources for food and human security / Timothy R. McClanahan, Eddie H. Allison, and Joshua E. Cinner

Crop technologies for the coming decade / Susan McCouch and Samuel Crowell

Livestock futures to 2020: how will they shape food, environmental, health, and global security? / John McDermott, Dolapo Enahoro, and Mario Herrero

Labor migration and food security in a changing climate / Robert McLeman

Trade policies and global food security / Kym Anderson

Food security and political stability: a humanitarian perspective / Daniel Maxwell

Moral economies of food security and protest in Latin America / Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring

Food security and sociopolitical stability in Sub-Saharan Africa / Christopher B. Barrett and Joanna B. Upton

Lessons from the Arab Spring: food security and stability in the Middle East and North Africa / Travis J. Lybbert and Heather R. Morgan

Food security and sociopolitical stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Johan Swinnen and Kristine Van Herck

Food security and sociopolitical stability in South Asia / Arun Agrawal

When China runs out of farmers / Luc Christiaensen

Food security and sociopolitical stability in East and Southeast Asia / C. Peter Timmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199679363

9780199679362

OCLC:

830367904