Niek Koning

Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth (eBook, PDF)

Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved living standards but that the realization of this improvement was usually dependent on government support for smallholder modernization.

The author sets out how the evolution of food security in different regions has been influenced by farm policy choices and how these choices were shaped by local societal characteristics, international relations and changing configurations in metropolitan countries. Separate chapters are devoted to the interaction of this evolution with debates on food security and economic growth and with international economic policies. The final chapters highlight the new challenges for global food security that will arise as traditional sources of biomass production and the more easily extractable reserves of fossil biomass become depleted or can no longer be used. Overall, the book emphasizes the inadequacy of current explanations with regard to these challenges. It explores what is needed to ensure a sustainable future and calls for a rethinking of these issues; a necessary reflection in today's unstable global political situation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317622574
• Artikelnr.: 48211029

Autorenporträt

Niek Koning is an Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Development and Food Security, and Emeritus Assistant Professor with the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. A Long View 3. Growth and Crisis in the Pre-Fossil Era
4. The Big Change 5. How Other Regions Coped 6. Agriculture and the Welfare
State: Emerging Problems 7. The Neoliberal Decades 8. Looking into the
Crystal Ball 9. Where there's a Will, there's a Way