Food Security and Sustainability Investment and Financing along Agro
This edited volume brings together contributions from experts on a range of food security issues, and examines them through a number of case studies. A Millennium Development goal and important policy concern, food security is experiencing renewed interes
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FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY Investment and Financing along Agro-Food Chains
Food Security and Sustainability
George Mergos • Marina Papanastassiou Editors
Food Security and Sustainability Investment and Financing along Agro-Food Chains
Editors George Mergos University of Athens Athens, Greece
Marina Papanastassiou Middlesex University Business School Hendon, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-40789-0 ISBN 978-3-319-40790-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40790-6
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Preface
The relevance of this volume is very timely. With evidence on climate change accumulating, the issue of feeding 9.5 billion people in 2050 climbs high up in the international agenda. There is little doubt that global warming represents for mankind the huge challenge of making development sustainable. Hence, despite current efforts, these two issues, food security and sustainability, remain unsettled. It is not just that the world needs to produce more food to accommodate rapidly rising demand due to fast-growing populations and incomes, but food systems are also under severe stress due to climate change, there is a diet shift to animal products and resource degradation. After the food crisis of the 1970s, the downward trend in food commodity prices in the 1980s and the 1990s led to complacency. The year 2002 represents, though, a turning point with a food price trend reversal and increased food price volatility initiating renewed interest on food security and sustainability. However, this time the global terrain is different. Globalization has elevated a large part of the global population to affluenc
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