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The global food crisis : governance challenges and opportunities / Jennifer Clapp and Marc J. Cohen, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in international governance.
- Studies in international governance series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food prices--Developing countries.
- Food prices.
- Food supply--Developing countries.
- Food supply.
- Food relief--International cooperation.
- Food relief.
- Crops and climate--Developing countries.
- Crops and climate.
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Agricultural systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world?s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The causal factors behind the food crisis
- pt. 2. Immediate governance challenges and proposals : food aid, trade measures, and international grain reserves
- pt. 3. Longer-term ecological concerns and governance responses
- pt. 4. Strategies to promote food security and sustainable agriculture : the say ahead.
- Notes:
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612534324
- 9781282534322
- 1282534327
- 9781554581986
- 1554581982
- 9781554582754
- 155458275X
- OCLC:
- 649833117
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