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Autore: | Carolan Michael S |
Titolo: | Reclaiming food security [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Carolan |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.8 |
Soggetto topico: | Food security - Social aspects |
Human security | |
Agriculture - Environmental aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | A failed project -- Food security: a brief history -- Calorie-ization of food security -- Neoliberalization of food security -- Empty calorie-ization of food security -- Pieces missed -- Well-being and nutrition -- Life expectancy -- Subjective indicators of well-being -- Aggregate well-being indicators -- Nutritional well-being -- Sustainability -- Greenhouse gas emissions -- Energy consumption -- Water -- Waste -- Meat -- Environmental performance index: agriculture -- Food sovereignty, safety and access -- Farmer dependency -- Constricting consumer choice -- Food safety -- Import dependency -- Looking forward -- The food and human security index -- Individual and society well-being -- Ecological sustainability -- Potential for food independence -- Nutritional well-being -- Freedom in agrifood chain -- Results -- Lessons learned -- From Green Revolution to rainbow evolution -- So what can we eat if not GDP? -- Food security as process (not a thing) -- Towards a new social imaginary. |
Sommario/riassunto: | In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations - in both the present and future - the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy lives. For a variety of reasons, food security has come to be synonymous with cheap calorie security. On this measure, the last fifty years have been a remarkable success. But the author shows that these cheap calories have also come at great cost, to the environment, individual and societal |
Titolo autorizzato: | Reclaiming food security |
ISBN: | 0-203-38793-7 |
1-299-48092-6 | |
1-135-06766-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452845203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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