Advances in Food Security and Sustainability
- 1st Edition, Volume 7 - October 13, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Marc J. Cohen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 9 8 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 9 8 7 - 9
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Seven in this informative serial, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Nutritional improvement of cereal crops to combat hidden hunger during COVID-19 pandemic: Progress and prospects, Resilience and food security, Food insecurity in Lebanon, Promising technologies on food security and sustainability, and Agrobiodiversity.
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- Presents the latest release in the Advances in Food Security and Sustainability serial
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
- References
- Chapter One: Facing up to our converging climate and food system catastrophes
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Lessons from the past: Food aid as an important but inadequate response to hunger crises
- 3: Meeting a challenge more complex than producing more food
- 4: A promising conceptual shift at the 2021 United Nations food systems summit
- 5: Harnessing science and innovation to transform food systems
- 6: Levers for food system change
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Two: Women and food security in Africa: The double burden in addressing gender equality and environmental sustainability
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Women's contribution to food security in Africa
- 3: Gender dimension of food security in Africa
- 4: Conclusion and recommendations
- References
- Chapter Three: Nutritional improvement of cereal crops to combat hidden hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic: Progress and prospects
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Population structure and genetic base-broadening
- 3: Genotyping approaches for association mapping
- 4: High-throughput phenotyping platforms and statistical tools
- 5: Integrating omics with association mapping
- 6: Application of association mapping in genetic improvement of nutritional traits
- 7: Biofortification using conventional and genomic approaches
- 8: The way forward
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Four: The future of food security: Implantation of technologies
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Efforts
- 3: Limits to advances of technology in food security
- 4: Recommendations
- 5: Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter Five: Food security in Lebanon: A multifaceted challenge
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Barriers
- 3: Impact on climate change
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter Six: Agriculture and food security in Northern Nigeria, Part I: The implications of climate change
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Climate change in Northern Nigeria
- 3: Impact on crop production
- 4: Impact on livestock production
- 5: Impact on fish production
- 6: Conclusion
- 7: Recommendations
- References
- Chapter Seven: Agriculture and food security in Northern Nigeria, Part II: The impact of mining
- Abstract
- 1: Background
- 2: Mining activities in northern Nigeria
- 3: Conclusion
- 4: Recommendations
- References
- Further reading
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 7
- Published: October 13, 2022
- No. of pages (Hardback): 176
- No. of pages (eBook): 176
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323989862
- eBook ISBN: 9780323989879
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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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