Molly Brown

Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using a decade of primary research, this book examines how weather and climate, as measured by variations in the growing season using satellite remote sensing, has affected agricultural production, food prices and access to food in food-insecure regions of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780415663120
• ISBN-10: 0415663121
• Artikelnr.: 39594692

Autorenporträt

Molly E. Brown is a research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center based in Maryland, USA. She has a BS in biology, and an MA and PhD in Geography. Her research interests include understanding the effect of environmental variability on food prices and market functioning, and the use of satellite remote sensing for decision-making.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability 2. Food Security and
Monitoring Systems 3. Climate Variability, Agriculture and Remote Sensing
4. Trends in National Food Security and the Impact of Climate 5. Markets
and Determinants of Food Prices 6. Food Prices and Seasonality 7. Modeling
the Impact of Climate Variability on Local Food Prices 8. Environmental and
Nutrition Outcomes 9. Policy Implications of Price Dynamics and the Way
Forward