Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth - Long-Term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future

Informationen zum Autor Niek Koning is an Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Development and Food Security! and Emeritus Assistant Professor with the Agricultural Economicsand Rural Policy Group! Wageningen University! the Netherlands. Zusammenfassung Using a political-economicapproach supplemented with insights from human ecology! this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth.The bookbeginsby discussingthe nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution.It explains how these changesimproved living standards but that the realization ofthis improvement was usually dependent on government support for smallholder modernization. The authorsets out how the evolution of food security in different regions has been influenced by farm policy choices and how these choices were shaped by local societal characteristics! international relations and changing configurations in metropolitan countries. Separate chapters are devoted to the interaction of this evolution with debates on food security and economic growth and with international economic policies. The final chaptershighlight the new challenges for global food security that will arise as traditional sources of biomass production and the more easily extractable reserves of fossil biomass becomedepleted or can no longer be used.Overall! the bookemphasizes the inadequacy of currentexplanations with regard to these challenges. It explores what is needed to ensure a sustainable future and calls for a rethinking of these issues; anecessary reflectionin today's unstable global political situation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. A Long View3. Growth and Crisis in the Pre-Fossil Era4. The Big Change5. How Other Regions Coped6. Agriculture and the Welfare State: Emerging Problems7. The Neoliberal Decades8. Looking into the Crystal Ball9. Where there's a Will! there's a Way ...

Product details

• Authors: Niek Koning, Niek (Wageningen University Koning, Koning Niek
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2017
• EAN: 9781138803046
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80304-6
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; NATURE / Natural Resources, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Food security & supply, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Central / national / federal government policies, Agriculture & Related Industries, Central government policies, Food security and supply, biomass