Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change - Behnassi, Mohamed; Pollmann, Olaf.; Kissinger, Gabrielle; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Part I Combating Food Insecurity: A Global Responsibility -- 1 Managing Food Systems, Climate Change and Related Challenges to Ensure Sustainable Food Security: The Urgent Need of a Paradigm and Policy Shift -- 2 The Meat Crisis: The ethical dimensions of animal welfare, climate change, and future sustainability -- 3 Dietary options for climate change mitigation -- 4 Linking Forests and Food Production in the REDD+ Context -- Part II Managing Linkages between Climate Change and Food Security -- 5 Gender, Climate Change and Household Food Security: A South Asian -- 6 The Threats of Climate Change: Implication for Food Crisis in sub Sahara Africa -- 7 Climate Change and Food Security in Kano Nigeria: A Model for Sustainable Food Production -- 8 Climate Change and Food Insecurity: Institutional Barriers to Adaptation of Marginal Groups in the Far-Western Region of Nepal -- 9 The Impacts of Climatic Variability and Change on Subsistent Crops in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Cameroon-Options for Adaptation -- Part III Food Security and Food Production and Consumption Patterns -- 10 Productive Potential of Urban Agriculture Towards Food Security: Evidence from Southwest Nigeria -- 11 The Role of Bahrain Local Production Systems in Ensuring Sustainable Food Security -- 12 General View Point, Perception and Acceptance of Organic Food Products among Urban Consumers in the Thai Marketplace -- 13 Food Diversity and Nutritional status in Schoolchildren in Morocco -- 14 Local or Indigenous Chicken Production: A Key to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Disease Mitigation and Socio-Cultural Fulfillment in Africa -- 15 Responding to Food Production Challenges at the Face of Global Warming at Community Level in Kenya: The Role of a Local University -- Part IV Enhancing Food Security by Innovation: Selected Successful Practices -- 16 Food Security in Knowledge-Based Economy: Role of Trans-National Seed Corporations -- 17 Food Security Constraints and Role of Biosaline Agriculture in Meeting Food Demand in the Gulf States -- 18 Land Use Change and Food Security: Has Introduction of Rice Production in Cotton Zone in Benin Met Optimal Allocation of Resources by Households? -- 19 Oil Palm Expansion: Competing Claim of Lands for Food, Biofuels, and Conservation -- 20 Potential and Deployment of Innovative Raised Bed Over Conventional Planting System in Wheat (Triticum Aestivum l.) to Defeat Hunger -- Postface -- Index.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Physical geography; Social sciences; Agricultural economics; Renewable energy resources; Public health; Sustainable Development; Earth System Sciences; Social Sciences, general; Agricultural Economics; Renewable and Green Energy; Public Health