"Land is ubiquitous but exceptionally precious, no-frills, and one-off for all beings past, present, and future though not all appropriately appreciated for its nonpareil significance and sacredness. Nevertheless, currently, African corrupt, credulous, and closed-minded rulers are blindly and...

This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the 'regional food industrial cluster' in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning 'innovation' to a core concept, with the basic...

In food and agriculture, the creation of value is paramount to any company's survival, and even more so at a time where dramatic changes in business and industrial marketing's context are leading to fundamental changes in what companies should be analysing, creating, and delivering.Although...

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I FOOD SECURITY AND INSECURITY: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES -- 1 Food Security -- What is Food Security? -- What is Food...

Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Intervention by International Organizations -- 2. The Regime Complex for Food Security -- 3. The FAO: Mobilizing States to Protect Food Security -- 4....

How to understand the twenty-first century food crisis Since 2007, farm-product prices have rocketed and plunged, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how "food security," the availability of food and the reasonable ability...

Food and eating has always been endowed with meanings. It is one of the most visible and important symbols of identity and difference, uniting the members of a community and segregating them from other communities. This inclusion and exclusion can be observed not only in what they eat or what...

What defines a sustainable food system? How can it be more inclusive? How do local and global scales interact and how does power flow within food systems? How to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to realizing sustainable food systems? And how to activate change? These questions are...

Cover -- Will Africa Feed China? -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. China and Mozambique: Fiction and Fact -- 2. "Begging with a Golden Bowl": Food Security and Commercial Farms -- 3. Seeds of Change: Foreign Agribusiness...

Currently, a billion undernourished people experience hunger on a regular basis. Global food production will have to rise 70 per cent by 2050 as the world population expands to 9.1 billion from 6.8 billion people. Recent global food prices have been the highest on record, exceeding 2008 levels...