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Resilience and food security in a food systems context

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Title Resilience and food security in a food systems context
 
Creator Béné, Christophe
Devereux, Stephen
 
Subject resilience
food security
agriculture
trade
globalization
sustainability
food systems
agricultural economics
environmental economics
open access
 
Description This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and critically the contribution of the concept of resilience in advancing our understanding and ability to design and implement development interventions in relation to food security and humanitarian crises. For this, the book departs from the narrow beaten tracks of agriculture and trade, which have influenced the mainstream debate on food security for nearly 60 years, and adopts instead a wider, more holistic perspective, framed around food systems. The foundation for this new approach is the recognition that in the current post-globalization era, the food and nutritional security of the world’s population no longer depends just on the performance of agriculture and policies on trade, but rather on the capacity of the entire (food) system to produce, process, transport and distribute safe, affordable and nutritious food for all, in ways that remain environmentally sustainable. In that context, adopting a food system perspective provides a more appropriate frame as it incites to broaden the conventional thinking and to acknowledge the systemic nature of the different processes and actors involved. This book is written for a large audience, from academics to policymakers, students to practitioners.
 
Date 2023
2023-04-12T13:48:24Z
2023-04-12T13:48:24Z
 
Type Book
 
Identifier Béné, C.; Devereux, S. (eds.) (2023) Resilience and food security in a food systems context. Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy. Cham (Switzerland): Palgrave Macmillan Cham, XIX, 413 p. ISBN: 978-3-031-23537-5
9783031235344
9783031235351
2662-3897
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129953
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23535-1
 
Language en
 
Relation Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format XIX, 413 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer International Publishing