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Advances in Food Security and Sustainability

  • 1st Edition, Volume 6 - October 25, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Marc J. Cohen
  • Language: English

Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Six looks at the challenges, constraints and solutions necessary to maintain a healthy and accessible food supply in differ… Read more

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Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Six looks 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, with chapters in this release covering the Significance of Short Food Supply Chains During Pandemic Times, Food Security Challenges and Opportunities in Indonesia Post COVID-19, Understanding the genetic diversity and association mapping of nutritional traits in graminaceous crops: Progress and prospects, and Traditional foods and food security: Actors, production, and the challenge of integration into markets before and after the pandemic.

Key features

  • Contains expertise from leading contributors on presented topics
  • Covers a vast array of subjects related to food security and sustainability
  • Explores challenges related to protecting environmental resources while also meeting human nutritional requirements

Readership

Researchers in life sciences and social sciences as well as policymakers, food industry professionals, advisers, and more

Table of contents

1. Global trends on Covid-19 and food security research: A scientometric study

Mohamad N. Azra, Mohd Iqbal Mohd Noor, Mhd Ikhwanuddin and Nesar Ahmed

2. Short food supply chains to resolve food scarcity during COVID 19 pandemic: An Indian model

Balakrishnan Dharmalingam, M.S. Giri Nandagopal, Venkatesh Thulasiraman, Anjineyulu Kothakota and Rajkumar

3. The impact of food security disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic on tribal people in India

Anupriya Saxena

4. ASEAN responses to COVID-19 for assuring food security

Paul P.S. Teng, Mely Caballero-Anthony and Jose Ma. Luis Montesclaros

5. Food security challenges and opportunities in Indonesia post COVID-19

Zuhud Rozaki

6. Impact of COVID-19 on marine fisheries supply chains: Case study of Malaysia

Zarul Hazrin Hashim, Mohamad N. Azra, Mohd Iqbal Mohd Noor, Nor Azman Kassan and Shau Hwai Tan

7. Sustainability of the agri-food supply chain amidst the pandemic: Diversification, local input production, and consumer behavior

Eileen Bogweh Nchanji and Cosmas Kweyu Lutomia

8. Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists

Evan F. Griffith, Shaina Craige, Pablo Manzano, Loupa Pius, and Christine C. Jost

9. Latin America and the Caribbean: Food systems in times of the pandemic

Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, Valeria Piñeiro and David Laborde

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 6
  • Published: October 29, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editor

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Oxfam America, USA

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