Food security and global environmental change / edited by John Ingram, Polly Erickson and Diana Liverman

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List of figures, tables and boxes.. Editorial committee.. List of contributors.. Preface.. Acknowledgements.. List of acronyms and abbreviations.. Part I: Food Security, Food Systems and Global Environmental Change.. Chapter 1. Food Systems and the Global Environment: an Overview.. Chapter 2. The Value of the Food Systems Approach.. Chapter 3. Lessons Learned from International Assessments.. Chapter 4. Part I: Main Messages.. Part II: Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation in Food Systems.. Chapter 5. Vulnerability and Resilience of Food Systems.. Chapter 6. What is Vulnerable?.. Chapter 7. Vulnerability to What?.. Chapter 8. Adapting Food Systems.. Chapter 9. Part II: Main Messages.. Part III: Engaging Stakeholders.. Chapter 10. The Science-Policy Interface.. Chapter 11. Engaging Stakeholders at the Regional Level.. Chapter 12. Part III: Main Messages.. Part IV: A Regional Approach.. Chapter 13. Why Regions?.. Chapter 14. Stakeholders' Approaches to Regional Food Security Research.. Chapter 15. Undertaking Research at the Regional Level.. Chapter 16. Part IV: Main Messages.. Part V: Food Systems in a Changing World.. Chapter 17. Food, Violence and Human Rights.. Chapter 18. Governance Beyond the State: Non-state Actors and Food Systems.. Chapter 19. Green Food Systems for 9 Billion. Chapter 20. Surprises and Possibilities.. Chapter 21. Part V: Main Messages.. Chapter 22. Reflection on the Book.. Index

Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods. As this book shows, at the same time, agriculture and related activities also contribute to GEC by, for example, intensifying greenhouse gas emissions and altering the land surface. Responses aimed at adapting to GEC may have negative consequences for food security, just as measures taken to increase food security may exacerbate GEC. The authors show that this complex and dynamic relationship between GEC and food security is also influenced by additional factors; food systems are heavily influenced by socioeconomic conditions, which in turn are affected by multiple processes such as macro-level economic policies, political conflicts and other important drivers. The book provides a major, accessible synthesis of the current state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between GEC and food security. Most other books addressing the subject concentrate on the links between climate change and agricultural production, and do not extend to an analysis of the wider food system which underpins food security; this book addresses the broader issues, based on a novel food system concept and stressing the need for actions at a regional, rather than just an international or local, level. It reviews new thinking which has emerged over the last decade, analyses research methods for stakeholder engagement and for undertaking studies at the regional level, and looks forward by reviewing a number of emerging 'hot topics' in the food security-GEC debate which help set new agendas for the research community at large. eng