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The global food crisis : governance challenges and opportunities /
The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. This book captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world's poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Waterloo, Ont.] :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in international governance.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. This book captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world's poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781554582754 155458275X 9781554581986 1554581982 1554581923 9781554581924 9786612534324 661253432X 9781282534322 1282534327 |