Beddington J, Asaduzzaman M, Fernandez A, Clark M, Guillou M, Jahn M, Erda L, Mamo T, Van Bo N, Nobre CA, Scholes R, Sharma R, Wakhungu J. 2011. Achieving food security in the face of climate change: Summary for policy makers from the Commission on...
This study finds that measures to tackle methane and black carbon emissions could reduce global warming by about 0.5°C by 2050. It would also lower the burden of premature deaths and increase crop yields. Reference and abstract as follows...
An interesting paper that looks at adaptation and mitigation options for farmers, with a particular focus on smallholders. It emphasises the need to address not just the science/technological aspecf of mitigation/adaptation but also the social...
This interesting paper by FCRN mailing list member John Ingram, makes the important (but often neglected) point that food security is not just an issue of production, but rather an outcome of multiple social, economic and environmental factors,...
'Virtuous Circles: Values, Systems and Sustainability’, a recently published book by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), articulates an alternative future in which food, energy and water supplies are...
This new book, published by Earthscan (now part of Routledge) has recently been published.
This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to...
Tomlinson, I., Doubling food production to feed the 9 billion: A critical perspective on a key discourse of food security in the UK, Journal of Rural Studies (2011), doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.09.001
The FAO’S lates SOFI report examines similar issues and looks in particular at recent effects of high and volatile food prices. Its key points are as follows:
Small import-dependent countries, especially in Africa, were deeply...
Over 170 people attended the first Africa College International Conference on Food Security, Health and Impact held in Leeds from 22-24th June, 2011. This looked at the complex challenges of achieving food security in the context of global warming,...
