Mark Gibson

The Feeding of Nations

Redefining Food Security for the 21st Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In the last decade, despite abundant food supply, hunger has increased and 925 million remain malnourished. Exploring this troubling paradox, this volume offers a glimpse into how the simple aspiration of global food security has evolved and unfolded-with sometimes contradictory and counterproductive policies, agendas, and ideologies. Providing a holistic analysis of the issues, it explores the different sectors related to food security, including agriculture, environment, and policy. It describes the goals that society has set regarding food security, the means by which these are to be achieved, and current thoughts on solutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 686
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1268g
• ISBN-13: 9781138198517
• ISBN-10: 113819851X
• Artikelnr.: 49775989

Autorenporträt

Mark Gibson is Professor of Media and Associate Dean, Media, Writing and Publishing at RMIT University, Australia. He was previously head of Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, and has also worked in media and cultural studies at Murdoch University and Central Queensland University, Australia. He has research interests in cultural industries and the intellectual legacy of countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He is author of Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Food Security: What Is It, How and Who Does It Affect? Food Security: What
Is It? Good Nutrition: A Basic Introduction. Bad 'Mal'-nutrition: The
Physiology of Hunger. Food Security: The Global Picture. History: A
Fledgling Construct. Sociocultural Evolution. Governance, Philosophy,
Politics and Economics. Science, Technology and Philosophy. History:
Twentieth Century. Twentieth Century: The Feeding of Nations-A New Global
Enthusiasm. The Inter-War Years 1919-1939. World War Two: 1939-1945. The
Post-War Years. The Development Decade: 1960s. Famine, Oil and the Food
Crisis: 1970s. The Lost Development Decade: 1980s. The Era of the
Conference: 1990s. The Twenty-First Century: Ideological Convergence? A
Sectoral Analysis: Food Security and... Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries. Science and Technology. Socio-Cultural. Health and Nutrition.
Environment and Natural Resources. Governance, Politics and Economics. The
Final Analysis-Food Security. Origins: Aetiology and Etymology-Dispelling
the Myths. Causality and Future Research. Redefining Food Security. Food
for Thought: Discussion and Considerations. Closing Remarks. Appendices.
Appendix A: Country Classifications. Appendix B: Mortality Categories.
Appendix C: The Gibson Framework of Food Security. Appendix D: Metabolism.
Appendix E: Micronutrients. Appendix F: Malnutrition-Its Assessment and
Measurement. Appendix G: Biological Systematics. Appendix H: Millennium
Development Goals. Appendix I: Global Warming-The Basics. Appendix J:
Energy Sources. Appendix K: Stakeholders. Appendix L: Conversion Rates.
Appendix M: Glossary.