Transforming Food Systems
The Quest for Sustainability
Published on 9. July 2024
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-1-78676-455-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sets out the historical context for understanding the current challenges facing food production
Gives a unique overview of the range of reformist, progressive and radical solutions to reforming the global food system
Provides a framework for comparing the relative strengths and weaknesses of different solutions
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
University and other researchers in agriculture, rural studies, food policy and environmental science, as well as government personnel involved in developing policies for agriculture and food production
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
809 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78676-455-3 (9781786764553)
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Person
Dr Dave Watson is a leading authority on sustainable development and optimising value chains in agriculture. He has taught courses on sustainable development for the University of Hull (UK), as well as managing research and development programmes for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico. Dr Watson is editor of the two-volume Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize, also published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.
Content
- 1.The global food system
- 2.Competing paradigms of sustainable production: reformist food systems
- 3.Competing paradigms of sustainable production: progressive food system
- 4.Competing paradigms of sustainable production: radical food systems
- 5.The golden chalice of sustainability
- 6.Food system evolution
- 2.Competing paradigms of sustainable production: reformist food systems
- 3.Competing paradigms of sustainable production: progressive food system
- 4.Competing paradigms of sustainable production: radical food systems
- 5.The golden chalice of sustainability
- 6.Food system evolution