Food security and supply

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression.

Given the uncertainties in future food and nutrition security due to climate change compounded with an increasing global population, sustainable development is essential for the survival of much of the world's population.

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.

There is a widespread assumption that the American food system after World War II was transformed-toward an increasingly industrialized production of crops, more processed foods, and diets higher in fat, sugar, and calories-as part of a unified system.

The food supply chain needs to reassure consumers and businesses about the safety and standards of food.

This book introduces a comprehensive and sustainable project delivery framework tailored for managing the Water, Energy and Food (WEF) nexus in developing economies.

Sustainable Food System has cutting-edge green & circular Technologies, food Safety & diversity that aims to provide quality and safe foods in an environmentally conscious and sustainable way.

For anyone concerned about the health, safety, affordability, diversity, and sustainability of their food - and the peace of our planet.

The quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms and food.

During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations.

This book examines the current and future challenges facing the food and agricultural system and their implications for policymaking at the national and international level.

The book tries to answer the most fundamental question of whether there is a link between abundant food supply and economic growth with respect to a higher degree of human development.

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

This book explains how a former net food exporting Nepal has become a net food importing country due to a lack of an integrated system-wide approach to planning and governance of agriculture and natural resources.

The FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) is the most sweeping reform of United States food safety laws in more than 70 years.

This book offers perspective on climate change impacts on developing nations from scholars within those nations, primarily focusing on agriculture.

Sweetpotato and potato are expanding faster than any other food crops in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book covers important topics on various neglected and underutilised crops (vegetables, cereals, fruit crops).

Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces.

This book assesses the EU legal framework applicable to dairy products obtained through precision fermentation.

It seems an irrefutable truth that raising animals for meat has become unsustainable.

This book introduces a comprehensive and sustainable project delivery framework tailored for managing the Water, Energy and Food (WEF) nexus in developing economies.

“The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food.

This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales.

This book highlights a research-based design proposal which has the purpose of relieving from lack of global food supply.

Protein is one of the most important ingredients of the human diet and is considered crucial for the growth development of all age groups.

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.

The world population is increasing while arable land is decreasing at an alarming rate.

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends?

This book highlights important aspects of food biotechnology.

There has been growing academic interest in local food plants.

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks and aquatic plants.

From contaminated infant formula to a spate of all-too familiar headlines in recent years, food safety has emerged as one of the harsher realities behind China's economic miracle.

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 Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science provides an all-encompassing review of each contributor's study in topics such as food hygiene, agriculture, animal science, animal histology and embryology, and livestock production systems.

This book offers perspective on climate change impacts on developing nations from scholars within those nations, primarily focusing on agriculture.

In Search of Biohappiness deals with methods of converting agro-biodiversity hotspots into happy spots.

Food gardening is becoming increasingly popular, as people look for new ways to live more sustainably and minimize harm to the environment.

Awarded honourable mention for the 2024 GFASG Book Award.

Water, Energy and Food are the very basic necessities of human life and all the three of them are interconnected with each other, this connection being called the Water-Energy-Food nexus.

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.

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food.

This volume discusses the nutraceutical importance, production technologies, management and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables, which can be described as those vegetable crops which are neither grown commercially on a large scale nor traded widely.

Global farming is at a crucial juncture in its evolution.