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Advances in Food Security and Sustainability
- 1st Edition, Volume 5 - October 16, 2020
- 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
Preface
Marc J. Cohen
1. How Energy Innovation in Indoor Vertical Farming can Improve Food Security, Sustainability, and Food Safety?
Dafni Despoina Avgoustaki and George Xydis
2. Gender Inequality and Food Insecurity: A dozen years after the global food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hungerHélène Botreau and Marc J. Cohen
3. The nature and extent of global volatility of public agricultural R&D expenditure 1981−2014Stuti Rawat
4. Nigeria: Impacts of COVID 19 on Production, Poverty and Food Systems
Kwaw Andam, Hyacinth Edeh, Victor Oboh, Karl Pauw and James Thurlow- No. of pages: 186
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 5
- Published: October 16, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128207116
- eBook ISBN: 9780128207123
MC
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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Senior Researcher, Oxfam America, USARead Advances in Food Security and Sustainability on ScienceDirect