Food security and supply

Shadow Negotiators is the first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence the discourse, agenda, and outcomes of international trade lawmaking at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

According to the global hunger index, South Asia has worldwide highest rate of undernourished people.

This book tackles the main feature of water-smart, soil-smart and crop-smart practices and their integration to sustainably enhance food production.

A deeply human-centered perspective on the origins of America's food Where Am I Eating?

The failure of many of Tanzania's rural development schemes and policies results from their incompatibility with existing agricultural systems.

This book describes initiatives and concrete examples on sustainable food production worldwide.

While the importance of food to health and well-being is clear, the specific ways in which food systems contribute to individual and community health are not well understood.

This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states'' reliance on desalination plants, for researchers and policy makers.

The elapsing time from producer to consumer has significantly increased as a result of food marketing and trade globalization.

This book explores food accessibility and its relationship to food security in communities representing high populations of college and university students.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on the causes of hunger and resource management to achieve food security.

This book on 'Secondary Agriculture' discusses the goal of doubling farmers' incomes.

We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet.

Efforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture.

This book introduces basic and practical information on fertigation to researchers, extension agents and growers.

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, and then adapting to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered.

This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus.

American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death.

Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means?

This book on the fisheries sector in India, through primary surveys as well as secondary literature, brings out various nuances of the sector and its trade opportunities, the complexities surrounding the supply chain of fish, as well as the evolution of its marketing channels.

Efforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture.

This book presents different dietary patterns, some utilizing wild foods and others facing drastically changing dietary patterns, and shows their implications for health in terms of wealth, mutual assistance, food sufficiency and food diversity.

Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuel a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder.

This book on 'Secondary Agriculture' discusses the goal of doubling farmers' incomes.

Taste, Memory traces the experiences of modern-day explorers who rediscover culturally rich forgotten foods and return them to our tables for all to experience and savor.

Traditional foods can be defined as foods that have been consumed for several generations by a specific community in a particular locality, region or country.

Small farms represent important components of food systems and rural areas, as sources of occupation and livelihood, factors of socio-economic diversity, cradles of grass-roots innovation and experimentation.

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate RaworthFrom the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanityFarming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about.

This book brings together unique experiences of India, China and Israel in overcoming economic, social, and natural resource challenges.

Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) is a crop native to the Bambara tribe of Mali and is grown as a subsistence crop in Africa.

The price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable.

As friends began going back to the land at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcal set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level.

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "e;cropscape"e;-the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history.

With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does.

Over the centuries humans have used essential oils in the most diverse applications, mainly medicinal, and as sources of bioactive molecules.

This book delves into the specific subject area of life sciences, focusing on the remarkable world of millets and their multifaceted contributions.

The price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable.

There are significant challenges in food analysis, problems with food contamination and authentication, and a worldwide need to ensure food safety.

This book uncovers the multiple layers of challenges posed to achieve sustainable human health and improves the understanding of interactive areas set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (1) no poverty, (2) zero hunger, (3) good health and wellbeing, (6) clean water and sanitation, and (11) sustainable cities and communities.

This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture.

This book is an inquiry into the role of law in the contemporary political economy of hunger.

This two-volume set discusses recent approaches and technological innovations for sustainable agriculture in smallholder farming systems impacted by climate change.

The agri-food and rural development world has experienced significant changes in recent years.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

What does it mean when a food-rich society has thousands going hungry?