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The global food crisis governance challenges and opportunities

Title
The global food crisis [electronic resource] : governance challenges and opportunities / Jennifer Clapp and Marc J. Cohen, editors.
Publication
[Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009

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Additional Authors
  • Clapp, Jennifer, 1963-
  • Cohen, Marc J., 1952-
  • Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 267 p. : ill.) : digital file.
Series Statement
Studies in international governance series
Uniform Title
  • Global food crisis (Online)
  • Studies in international governance.
  • Canadian electronic library. Canadian publishers collection.
Subject
  • Agricultural systems
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Crops and climate > Developing countries
  • Food prices > Developing countries
  • Food supply > Developing countries
  • Food relief > International cooperation
Note
  • Co-published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
  • Issued as part of the Canadian electronic library publishers collection.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
System Details (note)
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents
Foreword / Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- Introduction. The food crisis and global governance / Jennifer Clapp and Marc J. Cohen -- Pt. 1, The causal factors behind the food crisis. The blame game : understanding structural causes of the food crisis / Anuradha Mittal ; The 1974 and 2008 food price crises : deþjà vu? / Sue Horton ; Responding to food price volatility and vulnerability : considering the global economic context / Jennifer Clapp ; US biofuels policy and the global food price crisis : a survey of the issues / Kimberly Ann Elliott -- Pt. 2, Immediate governance challenges and proposals : food aid, trade measures, and international grain reserves. Responding to the 2008 "food crisis" : lessons from the evolution of the food aid regime / Raymond F. Hopkins ; Preparing for an uncertain global food supply : a new food assistantce convention / C. Stuart Clark ; From food handouts to integrated food policies / Frederic Mousseau ; The uses of crisis : progress on implementing US local/regional procurement of food aid / Gawain Kripke -- Pt. 3, Longer-term ecological concerns and governance responses. The impact of climate change on nutrition / Cristina Tirado ... [et al.] ; Fossil energy and the biophysical roots of the food crisis / Tony Weis ; Setting the global dinner table : exploring the limits of the marketization of food security / Noah Zerbe -- Pt. 4, Strategies to promote food security and sustainable agriculture : the way ahead. A stronger global architecture for food and agriculture : some lessons from FAO's history and recent evaluation / Daniel J. Gustafson and John Markie ; Improving the effectiveness of US assistance in transforming the food security outlook in Sub-Saharan Africa / Emmy Simmons and Julie Howard ; Urban agriculture and changing food markets / Mark Redwood ; Reorienting local and global food systems : institutional challenges and policy options from the UN agricultural assessment / Marcia Ishii-Eiteman ; The governance challenges of improving global food security / Alex McCalla.
OCLC
ssj0000418707
Title
The global food crisis [electronic resource] : governance challenges and opportunities / Jennifer Clapp and Marc J. Cohen, editors.
Imprint
[Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010).
Series
Studies in international governance series
Studies in international governance.
Canadian electronic library. Canadian publishers collection.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Clapp, Jennifer, 1963-
Cohen, Marc J., 1952-
Centre for International Governance Innovation.
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