Food Security Governance - Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations

Zusatztext 102300472 Informationen zum Autor Nora McKeon is engaged in teaching, writing and advocacy on food issues and social movements, following a career at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. She is the author of Global Governance for World Food Security (2011), The United Nations and Civil Society (2009), and Peasant Organizations (2004). Klappentext This book fills a gap in the literature by setting concerns for food security in the context of global food governance in the 21st century. Zusammenfassung This book fills a gap in the literature by setting concerns for food security in the context of global food governance in the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Food governance: a rapid historical review 2. Food provision in a globalized world 3. What’s in a paradigm? Food security, food sovereignty and evidence-based decision-making 4. Reactions to the food price crisis and the challenge of rethinking global food governance 5. Local-global: building food governance from the bottom up 6. Building a better food system from the top reaching downward 7. Where to now? Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Nora McKeon, McKeon Nora
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2015
• EAN: 9780415529099
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52909-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies; Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; NATURE / Natural Resources, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, International Relations, Developing Countries, Food security & supply, Development Studies, Food security and supply, Global South / Developing countries