Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Advances in Food Security and Sustainability -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- References -- Chapter One: Facing up to our converging climate and food system catastrophes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lessons from the past: Food aid as an important but inadequate response to hunger crises -- 3. Meeting a challenge more complex than producing more food -- 4. A promising conceptual shift at the 2021 United Nations food systems summit -- 5. Harnessing science and innovation to transform food systems -- 6. Levers for food system change -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Two: Women and food security in Africa: The double burden in addressing gender equality and environmental sustain ... -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Definition of food security: Gender dimensions, climate impact and sustainability -- 2. Women´s contribution to food security in Africa -- 2.1. Challenges/limitations encountered and innovations employed -- 3. Gender dimension of food security in Africa -- 4. Conclusion and recommendations -- References -- Chapter Three: Nutritional improvement of cereal crops to combat hidden hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic: Progress and ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Population structure and genetic base-broadening -- 3. Genotyping approaches for association mapping -- 4. High-throughput phenotyping platforms and statistical tools -- 5. Integrating omics with association mapping -- 6. Application of association mapping in genetic improvement of nutritional traits -- 6.1. Protein content -- 6.2. Carbohydrate and related traits -- 6.3. Micronutrients -- 6.4. Secondary metabolites -- 7. Biofortification using conventional and genomic approaches -- 8. The way forward -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Four: The future of food security: Implantation of technologies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Efforts.

Following the 20 March 2011 elections, Haiti faces a potential political stalemate whilst confronting the massive reconstruction needs created by last year's earthquake. The electoral process started more than half a year ago and is being strongly influenced by the international community. Historically, election campaigns in Haiti have fomented instability and, under the conditions resulting from the 2010 earthquake, the level of risk is high. Besides, many organisations have criticised the government for its lack of leadership in addressing pressing issues of relief, relocation and reconstruction. This paper analyses the effects of the political situation on aid effectiveness, good governance and the strategies of the international community.

IFPRI3; GRP25; Theme 5; Subtheme 5.1; Governance structures and policy processes ; FCND ; Non-PR

In 1995, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) launched its intiative on a 2020 Vision for Food Agriculture, and the Environment. The vision is one of a food secure, malnutrition-free world by the year 2020 -- a world in which every person is assured access at all times to the food required to lead a healthy and productive life. During the past 25 years, food production has consistently kept pace with population growth, and since the early 1060s, food availability per person has increased by almost 20 percent. Nevertheless, nearly 800 million people in developing countries -- a population double that of the European Union -- lack access to a minimally adequate diet. ; IFPRI3; 2020; Hunger ; DGO ; Non-PR

Political situation in Taiwan; relations with the mainland; U.S. policy options.

Brian Thompson, Marc J. Cohen and Janice Meerman -- Introduction / Brian Thompson and Marc J. Cohen -- World Food Insecurity and Malnutrition: Scope, Trends, Causes and Consequences / Brian Thompson, Marc J. Cohen and Janice Meerman -- Climate Change and Food and Nutrition Security / Maria Cristina Tirado and Janice Meerman -- Nutrition and Bioenergy / Noora-Lisa Aberman and Marc J. Cohen -- Policies and Programmes for Improving Nutrition / Brian Thompson, Marc J. Cohen and Maria Cristina Tirado -- Conclusions and Recommendations / Brian Thompson, Marc J. Cohen, Maria Cristina Tirado and Janice Meerman.

This article revisits the authors' 1998 study on this topic (Messer, Cohen, & D'Costa, 1998). It employs a "food wars" framing to understand nutritional and political‐conflict status in countries experiencing protracted conflict‐related food crises and recent civil‐war situations that involve food insecurity. This framing includes typologies of conflict (pre‐conflict, active‐conflict, and post‐conflict) and food insecurity (food shortage, food poverty, food deprivation). It also incorporates related water‐sanitation‐and‐health and land‐grab issues that have multiplied since the early 2000s. Despite growing evidence of two‐way causal links between food insecurity and conflict, policy attention to these connections remains surprisingly modest. The article considers the implementation of recent major initiatives and programs aimed at addressing food insecurity–conflict links. It concludes by: (i) examining the implications for understanding and responding appropriately to recent Middle Eastern and North African conflict and hunger situations and (ii) offering recommendations for promoting sustainable food security and building peace in conflict countries.