1st Edition

East Asia and Food (In)Security

Edited By Shaun Breslin, Christopher W. Hughes Copyright 2016
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation. It also looks at how the perception of food insecurity has increasingly influenced the nature of international interactions, not just within East Asia, but also in the region’s relations with major external actors. Many of the... Read more

1. Introduction: East Asia and food (in)security  Shaun Breslin and Christopher W. Hughes

2. Rice security in Southeast Asia: beggar thy neighbor or cooperation?  Amy Freedman

3. Food in China’s international relations  Daojiong Zha and Hongzhou Zhang

4. Supermarkets, iron buffalos and agrarian myths: exploring the drivers and impediments to food systems modernisation in Southeast Asia  J. Jackson Ewing

5. Food security, the palm oil–land conflict nexus, and sustainability: a governance role for a private multi-stakeholder regime like the RSPO?  Helen E. S. Nesadurai

6. Going out: China’s food security from Southeast Asia  Nicholas Thomas

7. ‘Land grabbing’ or harnessing of development potential in agriculture? East Asia’s land-based investments in Africa  Franklyn Lisk

8. Food security: global trends and regional perspective with reference to East Asia  Ching-Cheng Chang, Huey-Lin Lee and Shih-Hsun Hsu

Biography

Shaun Breslin is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.

Christopher Hughes is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.