Food security and supply

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

The aim of this book is to open a vision to sustainability and development through a holistic perspective comprising the critical blocks of energy, environment and economy.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

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.

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

The book addresses the gap that exists in sustainable value chain development in the context of developing and emerging economies in meeting the sustainable development goals.

A professional booze writer whose life spins out of control tries to piece it back together by embarking upon an epic wine-fueled adventure that takes him to every corner of the U.

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.

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.

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 compiles a diverse and interdisciplinary range of scientific literature, laboratory developments, industrial implications and future prospects covering Entomophagy in 3D food printing to fight against hunger and nutritional deficiencies.

The demand for plant foods in all global markets has been increasing along with awareness of greenhouse gases generated from animal farming, expanded sentiments against animal slaughtering and common perception of the health benefits of plant food products.

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

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

This book provides viewpoints on a cross-sectoral, multiscale assessment of food and livelihood security in changing climate, the main global threats of the 21st century.

Though fluorescence is a long-established analytical method, it has only recently gained prominence as a valuable tool in food technology.

This book focuses on sustainable food systems in the Global South as highlighted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, which seeks to end global hunger through food and nutrient security.

This book highlights important aspects of food biotechnology.

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

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

This book presents quality technical papers representing the recent developments in the field of hydrological modeling, water management and water governance including practical applications.

This book explores different aspects of entrepreneurship from both an academic and a commercial point of view.

Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people s diets, but we rarely stop to think about the wider role they play in national and international policy-making, as well as global issues like food security, biotechnology, and even climate change.

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

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

Building on recent scholarship in the sociology of food, Claire Lamine uses in-depth case studies from France and Brazil to compile a critical survey of social science approaches to sustainability transitions in agri-food systems.

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

Radical Housewives is a history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association.

Der Agrarökonom Tony Rinaudo revolutioniert mit seiner Methode FMNR die Wiederaufforstung in Afrika.

Sustainable Food System is a food system that delivers food safety & security as two key elements and nutrition for masses having impact on their social, economic, and environmental bases to generate nutritional food security for future generations shall not be compromised.

Providing an introduction to the use of nutrition and health claims, this book explores these claims around the world and the impact of the different legislations on consumers as well as likely developments in the future.

Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture.

Building on recent scholarship in the sociology of food, Claire Lamine uses in-depth case studies from France and Brazil to compile a critical survey of social science approaches to sustainability transitions in agri-food systems.

This book provides the current status, research advances, challenges and opportunities of hemp products along with recommendations for future research.

This book provides viewpoints on a cross-sectoral, multiscale assessment of food and livelihood security in changing climate, the main global threats of the 21st century.

Insects have been consumed by various cultures across the globe for centuries, yet their potential as a sustainable and nutritious food source has only recently gained widespread attention.

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

Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for appropriate acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life.

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.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Food & Wine editor Ray Isle does for wine what Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma did for food—showing readers how to choose more delicious, interesting, and environmentally friendly wines without breaking the bank.

As the era of thriving, small-scale fishing communities continues to wane across waters that once teamed with (a way of) life, Fiona McCormack opens a window into contemporary fisheries quota systems, laying bare how neoliberalism has entangled itself in our approach to environmental management.

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.