Proceedings of the 2012 Parliamentary Conference, with Sir John Beddington; Professor Jonathon Foley; Dr Derek Byerlee; Dr Frank Rijsberman and others

Food insecurity in many low-income, developing countries is projected to intensify unless steps are taken to reverse the performance trend of key contributing factors: agricultural productivity, foreign exchange earnings, and population growth. For the poorest countries, an increase in...

Most methodological materials and analyses of food security pertain to the classical developing countries of the world. In this paper we discuss the question what pattern of food insecurity has developed across the transition countries? And, are there specific characteristics of food insecurity...

Der Anbau von Lebensmitteln im heimischen Garten, auf Pachtflächen, in Schrebergärten oder Communal Gardens erfreut sich ungeahnter Beliebtheit. Neuere empirische Arbeiten weisen darauf hin, dass Obst- und Gemüseanbau, Kleintierhaltung und Hausschlachtungen jenseits der großstädtischen...