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Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth
- Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future
Engelsk Paperback
Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth
- Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future
Engelsk Paperback

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Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved living standards but that the realization of this improvement was usually dependent on government support for smallholder modernization. 

The author sets out how the evolution of food security in different regions has been influenced by farm policy choices and how these choices were shaped by local societal characteristics, international relations and changing configurations in metropolitan countries. Separate chapters are devoted to the interaction of this evolution with debates on food security and economic growth and with international economic policies. The final chapters highlight the new challenges for global food security that will arise as traditional sources of biomass production and the more easily extractable reserves of fossil biomass become depleted or can no longer be used. Overall, the book emphasizes the inadequacy of current explanations with regard to these challenges. It explores what is needed to ensure a sustainable future and calls for a rethinking of these issues; a necessary reflection in today''s unstable global political situation.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
274
ISBN-13:
9781138803053
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1138803057
Udg. Dato:
26 apr 2017
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
26 apr 2017
Forfatter(e):
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