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Zusatztext 80561953 Informationen zum Autor John Ingram is Executive Officer at the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) International Project Office, Environmental Change Institute (ECI), Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK. Polly Ericksen was Science Officer at the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) International Project Office, Environmental Change Institute (ECI), Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK. She is now at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya. Diana Liverman is Chair of the GECAFS Scientific Advisory Committee, co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona and a Visiting Professor in Environmental Policy and Development in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Klappentext First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods. This title book provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between GEC and food security. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgements Part 1: Food Security and Global Environmental Change 1. Food Security and the Global Environment: an Overview 2. The Value of the Food Systems Approach 3. Lessons Learned from International Assessments 4. Part I Main Messages Part 2: Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation in Food Systems 5. Vulnerability and Resilience of Food Systems 6. What is Vulnerable? 7. Vulnerability to What? 8. Adapting Food Systems 9. Part 2 Main Messages Part 3: Engaging Stakeholders 10. The Science-Policy Interface 11. Engaging Stakeholders at the Regional Level 12. Part 3 Main Messages Part 4: A Regional Approach 13. Why Regions? 14. Stakeholders' Approaches to Regional Food Security Research 15. Undertaking Research at the Regional Level 16. Part 4 Main Messages Part 5: Food Systems in a Changing World 17. Food, Violence and Human Rights 18. Governance Beyond the State: Non-state Actors and Food Systems 19. Green Food Systems for 9 Billion 20. Surprises and Possibilities 21. Part 5 Main Messages 22. Reflection on the Book ...
