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Reclaiming food security / Michael Carolan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carolan, Michael S., author.
- Series:
- Earthscan food and agriculture.
- Earthscan food and agriculture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food security--Social aspects.
- Food security.
- Human security.
- Agriculture--Environmental aspects.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations - in both the present and future - the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy lives. For a variety of reasons, food security has come to be synonymous with cheap calorie security. On this measure, the last fifty years have been a remarkable success. But the author shows that these cheap calories have also come at great cost, to the environment, individual and societal
- Contents:
- A failed project
- Food security: a brief history
- Calorie-ization of food security
- Neoliberalization of food security
- Empty calorie-ization of food security
- Pieces missed
- Well-being and nutrition
- Life expectancy
- Subjective indicators of well-being
- Aggregate well-being indicators
- Nutritional well-being
- Sustainability
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Energy consumption
- Water
- Waste
- Meat
- Environmental performance index: agriculture
- Food sovereignty, safety and access
- Farmer dependency
- Constricting consumer choice
- Food safety
- Import dependency
- Looking forward
- The food and human security index
- Individual and society well-being
- Ecological sustainability
- Potential for food independence
- Freedom in agrifood chain
- Results
- Lessons learned
- From Green Revolution to rainbow evolution
- So what can we eat if not GDP?
- Food security as process (not a thing)
- Towards a new social imaginary.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-06765-1
- 0-203-38793-7
- 1-299-48092-6
- 1-135-06766-X
- 9780203387931
- OCLC:
- 1086548769
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