1st Edition
Food Security in Asia Challenges, Policies and Implications
By Monika Barthwal-Datta
Copyright 2014
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
The spike in global food prices in 2007–08 not only led to riots on several continents; it also reawakened fears about the world’s future ability to feed itself, as growing populations place greater demands on agricultural systems operating in increasingly difficult environmental and climatic conditions.
With more than half the world’s people and high levels of inequality, Asia lies at the... Read more
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
Chapter One Understanding food security
Chapter Two What is driving food insecurity in Asia?
Chapter Three How Asia has fed its citizens
Chapter Four Challenges of sustainability, resilience and adaptation
Chapter Five Where policies fail
Conclusion
Biography
Monika Barthwal-Datta is Lecturer in International Security in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. She is also the author of Understanding Security Practices in South Asia: Securitization Theory and the role of non-state actors (Routledge 2012).
