It is anticipated that the global community will encounter crises pertaining to water, energy, food, and the environment in the foreseeable future. The objective of this paper is to analyze global research endeavors pertaining to the interconnections among water, energy, food, and the...

For Hunger-proof Cities is the first book to fully examine food security from an urban perspective. It examines existing local food systems and ways to improve the availability and accessibility of food for city dwellers. It looks at methods to improve community-supported agriculture and...

Three leading scholars in the field explain why place and provenance are assuming more importance in the food chain to producers, consumers, and regulators. They examine how these concerns influence debates on the future of food and farming, exploring the implications for three very different...

Intro -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- Part I: Hunger in the Modern World -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Past and Present -- 1.2 Famine and Chronic Undernourishment -- 1.3 Some Elementary Concepts -- 1.4 Public Action for Social Security -- 2 Entitlement and...

In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land,...

Based on forecasts of global population growth, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. In addition, real food prices have risen in recent years after decades of decline, bringing the issue of food security even further into the public...

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 China Academic Conference on Food Packaging, November 23-25, 2013, Tianjin, China. The 100 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Functional Food Packaging Materials Technology; Chapter 2: Food Packaging Design; Chapter 3: Packaging...

BRICS, the 15-year-old alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has emerged as an important actor on the global political and economic stage, not least by expanding its membership to include middle-power states Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in...

Food: the weak link -- The ecology of population growth -- Moving up the food chain -- Food or fuel? -- Eroding soils darkening our future -- Peak water and good scarcity -- Grain yields starting to plateau -- Rising temperatures, rising food prices -- China and the soybean challenge -- The...