Advances in Food Security and Sustainability
- 1st Edition, Volume 5 - October 16, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Marc J. Cohen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 7 1 1 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 7 1 2 - 3
Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Five, takes a scientific look at the challenges, constraints and solutions necessary to maintain a healthy and access… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Five, takes a scientific look at the challenges, constraints and solutions necessary to maintain a healthy and accessible food supply in different communities. This ongoing series addresses a wide range of issues on food sustainability and security, exploring challenges related to protecting environmental resources while also meeting human nutritional requirements.
- Contains expertise from leading contributors on the topics
- Covers a vast array of subjects relating to food security and sustainability
- Explores challenges related to protecting environmental resources while also meeting human nutritional requirements
Researchers in life sciences and social sciences as well as policymakers, food industry professionals, advisers, and more
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: How energy innovation in indoor vertical farming can improve food security, sustainability, and food safety?
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Comparison in resources input and sustainability between different farming types
- 3: Comparison in food safety issues between different farming types
- 4: Customer opinion on indoor vertical farms
- 5: Conclusions
- Chapter Two: Gender inequality and food insecurity: A dozen years after the food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hunger
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Underlying structural factors (2008–11) and their impacts on women
- 3: How effective was the global response in tackling the structural causes of the crisis?
- 4: Addressing women's food insecurity in a (more) unstable and broken food system
- 5: Conclusion and recommendations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Three: Global volatility of public agricultural R&D expenditure
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The state of public agricultural R&D today
- 3: Estimating volatility in public agricultural R&D expenditure: Data and methods
- 4: Results: The extent and spread of public agricultural R&D volatility
- 5: Discussion and implications
- 6: Conclusion
- Chapter Four: Impacts of COVID-19 on food systems and poverty in Nigeria
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Nigeria's COVID-19 outbreak and responses
- 3: Expected impacts of lockdown policies
- 4: Simulating economic impacts
- 5: Estimated impacts
- 6: Conclusions
- Annex: Detailed scenario assumptions
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 5
- Published: October 16, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 186
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128207116
- eBook ISBN: 9780128207123
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Marc J. Cohen
Marc J. Cohen is Senior Researcher at Oxfam America, currently working on aid effectiveness and agricultural development policy. He is part of the Aid and Development Finance Issues Team of Oxfam International's Even it Up Campaign. Previously, he focused on humanitarian policy and climate change, as well as evaluations of humanitarian advocacy. His academic training is in political science and development studies, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Oxfam, Marc was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 1998-2008, and his long term research focus is global food security. Marc has carried out field research in Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, and the USA. He has taught at American, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins Universities, as well as at the Universities of Florence and Oslo.
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