Food security and supply

Did you know that more than a quarter of the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change come from food?

This book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and following a top-down approach.

Sustainable food production is a global challenge with respect to climate change and an ever-increasing world population.

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.

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

The art, fashion and wine industries are currently at various stages in their efforts to embrace and transition towards sustainability.

By 2050 the United Nations (UN) predicts a world population of 9.

Named one of the New York Times Best Wine Books of 2023Named one of the Washington Post's Best Wine Books of 2023In the late 1980s, while working for his family's real estate and parking business in Washington, DC, Alex received a life-changing case of wine as a gift that uncorked a new opportunity.

El espacio y el tiempo no son independientes, como se creía, sino aspectos diferentes de un todo flexible de 4 dimensiones llamado espacio–tiempo.

Following recent price spikes, food policy will continue to be of crucial concern to developing countries for the foreseeable future.

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

In recent years, China has taken a number of effective measures to strengthen the supervision of food quality and safety, but food safety incidents still occur sometimes.

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The UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for 'Zero Hunger' has refocused attention on hunger and malnutrition as major challenges for the 21st century and as essential desired goals for human development.

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 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 compiles updated information about the role and health benefits of various bioactives in food.

This book systematically introduces the knowledge system and research results of fisheries forecasting.

The book is a practical guide for the various steps in the post-harvest technology of frozen shrimps.

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

This book discusses the various aspects of the health and nutritional benefits of the wonder grains, small millets.

This book investigates the relationships between economies of scale in food consumption and a number of socio-economic and demographic characteristics of households and household behavioural choices since food is the major share of household expenditure for poor households.

This book highlights important aspects of food biotechnology.

This book highlights the approaches for achieving trans-disciplinary research integration for "e;semi-arid dryland agriculture systems"e; under changing climates, while also identifying the elements of a collaborative research agenda that are needed to advance global food security.

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.

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

This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings.

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.

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

This book systematically introduces the knowledge system and research results of fisheries forecasting.

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

Los problemas alimentarios —y también los significados de los alimentos y de los cuerpos que los consumen— no son una realidad dada de antemano, sino el resultado histórico de procesos que involucran tradiciones culturales locales, transformaciones científicas y epistémicas, desarrollos tecnológicos, nuevas formas de gobierno sobre lo social y lo corporal, así como sistemas industriales (cada vez más globales) de producción, distribución y publicidad alimentaria.

En todo el mundo, el sistema agroalimentario neoliberal, una de las caras mas exitosas de la globalizacion hegemonica capitalista, esta siendo enfrentado por procesos de resistencia que cuestionan la relacion colonial de explotacion y dominacion persistente hasta los dias de hoy en las formas de producir y de vivir.

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

Con la escasez de alimentos impulsada por la caída de las capas freáticas, la erosión de los suelos y el aumento de las temperaturas, el control de la tierra cultivable y los recursos hídricos se están convirtiendo en el centro de la lucha mundial por la seguridad alimentaria.

Colombia es un país rico en biodiversidad.

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.

A substantial portion of the world's rice is produced and consumed in the Asia and Pacific region.

This publication assesses the plant health, animal health, and food safety measures of member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.

This publication explains the evaluation and strategic investment priorities of the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the agriculture, natural resources, and rural development sector.

This book presents research into the production of safe, high-quality, and environmentally friendly agriculture products in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Norway is performing unevenly across its four agricultural policy objectives.