Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century Proceedin
This book is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the First International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (APSAFE 2013), which was held at Chulalongkorn University from November 28 – 30, 2013. The
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Food Security and Food Safety for the Twentyfirst Century Proceedings of APSAFE2013
Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century
Soraj Hongladarom Editor
Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century Proceedings of APSAFE2013
Editor Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics of Science and Technology Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand
ISBN 978-981-287-416-0 ISBN 978-981-287-417-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-417-7
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Preface
The following volume is a collection of some of the papers presented at the First International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, or APSAFE2013, which was held at Chulalongkorn University from November 28 to 30, 2013. The Asia-Pacific Society is a sister organization of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSAFE), which has held a series of conferences regularly for the past few decades. As food and agriculture obviously are among the most important parts of our lives no matter where we live, ethical considerations of food and agriculture are then very important, and the issue has gained worldwide interest not only as a newly emerging academic discipline but also as an important issue in the globalized world of today where food travels across nations and cultures at amazing speed. What you have here is a fruit of a long collaboration effort involving many nations spanning the globe, effort of scholars, scientists, and philosophers who are concerned about food and agriculture in their various dimensions. These scholars came from a large variety of disciplines, and they look at the central topic t
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