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Title Global food insecurity : rethinking agricultural and rural development paradigm and policy / Mohamed Behnassi, Sidney Draggan, Sanni Yaya, Editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 408 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Agriculture and rural development at the heart of sustainability and food security -- pt. 2. Governance for food security : key challenges and relevant debates -- pt. 3. Climate change and energy as new major factors redefining the world food equation -- pt. 4. Sustainable agriculture and food security : relevant experiences
Summary Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge is even more crucial given that we have not yet come close to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger. Scientists and relevant stakeholders are now voicing a clear message: that multiple challenges the world is facing requi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Sustainable agriculture -- Congresses
Food security -- Congresses
Rural development -- Congresses
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
Environnement.
Climat.
Food security
Rural development
Sustainable agriculture
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Behnassi, Mohamed
Draggan, Sidney.
Sanni Yaya, Hachimi.
ISBN 9789400708907
9400708904
9400708890
9789400708891