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