Exploring European food system vulnerabilities: Towards integrated food security governance

Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security.

This paper identifies rare climate challenges in the long-term history of seven areas, three in the subpolar North Atlantic Islands and four in the arid-to-semiarid deserts of the US Southwest. For each case, the vulnerability to food shortage before the climate challenge is quantified based on eight variables encompassing both environmental and social domains. These data are used to evaluate t...

eXtra Botany FOOD SECURITY Food standards: the cacophony of governance

Although long distance trade in food goes back at least as far as Columbus, the recent wave of food globalization is unprecedented in human history. But despite the existence of the Codex Alimentarius, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Trade Organization, there is no central authority that governs the many facets of food. Instead, we have arrived at a food network that is gov...

The Contested Governance of European Food Safety

India's Quest towards Food Security

India is home to one-sixth of the global population. When India became independent in 1947, the country was not self-sufficient in food production and did not have an appropriate food distribution system. There were pockets in the country which faced threat of famine and starvation whenever monsoon failed or staple production was low. Over three fourth of the population was poor, food insecure ...

Integrated soil-crop system management for food security.

China and other rapidly developing economies face the dual challenge of substantially increasing yields of cereal grains while at the same time reducing the very substantial environmental impacts of intensive agriculture. We used a model-driven integrated soil-crop system management approach to develop a maize production system that achieved mean maize yields of 13.0 t ha(-1) on 66 on-farm expe...