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Author(s): David Barling (Eds.)
ISBN(s): 9780128098646, 0128098643
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.27 MB
Year: 2016
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0128098643 
ISBN 13: 9780128098646
Author: David Barling

Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Two takes a scientific look at the challenges, constraints and solutions necessary to maintain a healthy and accessible food supply in different communities around the world. Topics covered in this new volume include the Management of major fungal diseases for sustainable oilseed rape crop production in the UK, Public Policy and the Construction of New Markets to Family Farms: Analyzing the Case of School Meals in São Paulo, Brazil, The environmental, social and market sustainability of sugar, and Sustainability performance of food chains: linking biodiversity and nutritional value in the Italian wheat to bread chain.

This ongoing series addresses a wide range of issues on the principles and practices of food sustainability and security, exploring challenges related to protecting environmental resources while also meeting human nutritional requirements.

  • Contains expertise from leading contributions on the topics
  • Covers a vast array of subjects relating to food security and sustainability
  • Explores challenges related to protecting environmental resources while also meeting human nutritional requirements

Advances in Food Security and Sustainability 1 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One: Fungi, Food Crops, and Biosecurity: Advances and Challenges

  • Abstract

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 Plant Disease Is a Moving Target

  • 3 The Search for Sustainable Solutions

  • 4 Designing Sustainable Agricultural Systems

  • 5 Conclusions

  • Acknowledgments

Chapter Two: Connecting Agri-Export Productivism, Sustainability, and Domestic Food Security via the Metabolic Rift: The Case of the Republic of Ireland

  • Abstract

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 Agricultural Productivism and the Rise of Agri-Food

  • 3 The Food Provisioning Environment and Dietary Health

  • 4 Conclusions

Chapter Three: Public Policy and the Construction of New Markets to Family Farms: Analyzing the Case of School Meals in São Paulo, Brazil

  • Abstract

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 Family Farming and Institutional Markets in Brazil

  • 3 Typology of Market Construction Process

  • 4 The PNAE in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

  • 5 Concluding Remarks

Chapter Four: Addressing Food Security Vulnerabilities Through Urban Food Policy Alliances: The Case of the Sustainable Food Cities Network in the UK

  • Abstract

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 Methods

  • 3 Building a SFCN

  • 4 The SFCN Contribution to Food Security

  • 5 Conclusions: Opportunities and Challenges for SFCNs to Deliver Food Security

  • Acknowledgments

Chapter Five: The Environmental, Social, and Market Sustainability of Sugar

  • Abstract

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 Where Is Sugar Produced?

  • 3 The Policy Environment for Sugar

  • 4 The Environmental Impact of Sugar Production and Processing

  • 5 The Social Sustainability of Sugar

  • 6 Market Sustainability of Sugar

  • 7 A Sustainable Future?

Chapter Six: Sustainability Performance of Food Chains: Linking Biodiversity and Nutritional Value in Italian Wheat-to-Bread Chains

  • Abstract

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 Biodiversity and Nutrition as Key Attributes for the Wheat-to-Bread Chain

  • 3 Methods

  • 4 Results

  • 5 Concluding Remarks

  • Acknowledgments

Chapter Seven: Food Security and the Sustainability of GMOs in the United States and the European Union

  • Abstract

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 GMO Controversies

  • 3 Theoretical Approach: Frames and Institutional Context

  • 4 GMO Regulation in the US and the EU: General Institutional Frames

  • 5 Analysis

  • 6 Conclusions

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