Global Food Insecurity Rethinking Agricultural and Rural Development
Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of ren
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Mohamed Behnassi • Sidney Draggan • Sanni Yaya Editors
Global Food Insecurity Rethinking Agricultural and Rural Development Paradigm and Policy
Editors Dr. Mohamed Behnassi Researcher Professor, Faculty of Law Economics and Social Sciences Ibn Zohr, University of Agadir Head of the North-South Research Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) Hy Salam, P.O. Box 14997 Agadir, Morocco [email protected] Dr. Sidney Draggan Environmental Information Coalition 1301 Delaware Avenue, SW Suite N601 Washington, DC 20024 USA [email protected]
Dr. Sanni Yaya Associate Professor of Economics and International Health Assistant Director Undergraduate Studies at the University of Ottawa’s Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences Templeton 43 K1N 6N5 Ottawa Canada [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-0889-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0890-7 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0890-7 Springer Dordrecht New York Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925659 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Front cover image: Courtesy of Daina Rechner ©IRD Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
The North-South Research Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) is a research organism founded by a group of researchers and experts from both Northern and Southern countries as an independent institution, with no political or state affiliation. Based in Morocco, NRCS aims to develop research and expertise in many social sciences areas with global and local relevance from a North-South perspective and within a complex and interdisciplinary approach. As a think tank, NRCS aspires to serve as a reference locally and globally through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community and decision-making processes. The Center is currently chaired by Mohamed BEHNASSI, Dr. Prof. in Global Sustainability Politics.
Preface
This volume is the outcome of an International Conference held in Agadir (Morocco), in November 2009, titled “The Integration of Sustainable Agriculture, Rural Development, and Ecosystems in the Context of Climate Change, the Energy Crisis and Food Insecurity”, chaired by Dr. Mohamed Behnassi. The Conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of Ibn Zhor University of Agadir (Morocco) and the North South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS), with the fruitful support and sponsorship of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The ambitious goal of this volume, and of the Conference that forms its basis, is to effect a serious rethinking of the complex interface of a baffling array of problems, issues, challenges and op
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