| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Frontiers of economics and globalization ; v. 17
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Frontiers of economics and globalization ; 17.
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| Summary |
This volume analyzes food security issues such as agricultural policy, global agricultural trade, international agricultural research and development, biotechnology, climate change, food waste, and nutrition guidelines. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Assessing the impact of agricultural R&D investments on long-term projections of food security -- The Nexus of dietary guidelines and food security / Brandon McFadden and Troy G. Schmitz -- Food fecurity through biotechnology: the case of genetically modified sugar beets in the United States / P. Lynn Kennedy, Karen E. Lewis and Andrew Schmitz -- What would happen if we don't have GMO traits? / Farzad Taheripour and Wallace E. Tyner -- Climate change and food security: threats and adaptation / Junyi Chen, Bruce A. McCarl and Anastasia Thayer -- Vegetable production, diseases, and climate change / Andreas W. Ebert -- U.S. agricultural policy: impacts on domestic and international food security / Vincent H. Smith and Joseph W. Glauber -- Sugarcane yields and production: Florida and Louisiana / Andrew Schmitz, P. Lynn Kennedy and Michael Salassi -- Aquaculture: its role in the future of food / James L. Anderson, Frank Asche, Taryn Garlock and Jingjie Chu -- Food security and the food safety modernization act / Lisha Zhang and James Seale Jr. -- Agricultural biotechnology and food security: can CETA, TPP, and TTIP become venues to facilitate trade in GM products? / Crina Viju, Stuart J. Smyth and William A. Kerr -- Assessing food security in Ethiopia / Karen Thome, Birgit Meade, Stacey Rosen and John C. Beghin -- The coffee-food security interface for subsistence households in Jimma Zone Ethiopia / John C. Beghin and Yalem Teshome -- Assessing food security in rural Bangladesh: the role of a nonfarm economy / Ashok K. Mishra and Aditya R. Khanal -- Food costs during the food crisis: the case of Tanzania / Donald Mitchell, Aneth Kayombo and Nancy Cochrane -- Food loss and waste as an economic and policy problem / Ulrich Koester. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food security.
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Food security. |
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Food supply.
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Food supply. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Schmitz, Andrew, editor.
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Kennedy, P. Lynn, editor.
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Schmitz, Troy Gordon, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: World agricultural resources and food security. First edition. United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2017 9781787145160 (DLC) 2017302715 (OCoLC)981118395 |
| ISBN |
9781787145153 (electronic book) |
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1787145158 (electronic book) |
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9781787149571 (epub) |
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1787149579 (epub) |
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9781787145160 (print) |
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1787145166 (print) |
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