Wayne Martindale

Global Food Security and Supply

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With the global population projected to reach 9 billion by theyear 2050, the need for nations to secure food supplies for theirpopulations has never been more pressing. Finding better supplychain solutions is an essential part of achieving a secure andsustainable diet for a rapidly increasing population. We are now ina position, through methods including life cycle assessment (LCA),carbon footprinting and other tools, to accurately measure andassess our use - or misuse - of natural resources,including food. The impact of new technologies and managementsystems can therefore improve efficiencies and find new ways toreduce waste.

Global Food Security and Supply provides robust, succinctinformation for people who want to understand how the global foodsystem works. The book demonstrates the specific tools availablefor understanding how food supply works, addresses the challengesfacing a secure and safe global food supply, and helps readers toappreciate how these challenges might be overcome.

This book is a concise and accessible text that focuses onrecent data and findings from a range of internationalcollaborations and studies. The author provides both asnapshot of global food supply and security today, and a projectionof where these issues may lead us in the future. This book willtherefore be of particular interest to food policy leaders,commercial managers in the food industry, and researchers andstudents seeking a better understanding of a rapidly evolvingtopic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781118699324
• ISBN-10: 1118699327
• Artikelnr.: 41429468

Autorenporträt

Dr Wayne Martindale is a research fellow at Sheffield Business School, UK, looking at resource efficiency within the food industry. His research updates and blog can be found at www.waynemartindale.com

Inhaltsangabe

About the Author xiii Preface xv Introduction xix 1 The Basis for Food
Security 1 1.1 Defining What Food Security Is and How Food Supply Chains
Can Deliver It 1 1.2 The Convergence of Food Security Research, Economics,
and Policy 6 1.3 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 8 1.4 Measuring
Hunger in a Changing World to Establish Security 11 1.5 The Undernutrition
and Overnutrition Gap 13 1.6 The Supply Chain and Nutrition Gaps 15 1.7 The
Relationship between Food Security and Biology 18 1.8 The Relationship
between Food Security and Biotechnology 26 1.9 Genetic Diversity of
Agricultural Crops and Livestock 28 1.10 Trade Agreements and the
Development of Agricultural Supply 30 References 31 2 Understanding Food
Supply Chains 39 2.1 Current Methods of Assessing Food Supply Chain
Efficiencies That Enable Food Security Projections 39 2.2 How Population
Growth and Limiting Factors Defi ne Demand and Food Security 40 2.3 Global
Population Estimates and Projections 42 2.4 Consumption and Population
Growth: Demonstrating the Impact of Dietary Changes and Transitions 44 2.5
Optimising Nutrition across Supply Chains Is the Focus of the Second Green
Revolution 47 2.6 The Emergence of Sustainable Farming Reconnecting Supply
Chains: A Case Study of the Establishment of the Landcare Movement in
Australia 49 2.7 The Long-Term Field Experiments at Rothamsted and Their
Power of Demonstrating Good Nutrient Balance in Agriculture Has Been
Crucial to the Development of Sustainable Food Supply 50 2.8 Long-Term
Field Experiments Hold Critical Data That Provide Our Understanding of
Nutrient Flows in Farming Systems So That Sustainable Food Supply Chains
Are Developed 52 2.9 The Sustainable Production of Livestock and Long-Term
Data 55 2.10 The Historical Proof of the Value of Agricultural Innovations
in Providing Food Security 56 2.11 The Relationship between Field Trials,
Investments, and Innovation 61 References 62 3 The Scientific Basis for
Food Security 69 3.1 The Supply of Essential Plant Nutrients 69 3.2 Plant
Nutrients and Phytonutrients in the Food Supply Chain: Establishing a
Nutritional Understanding Using Human Trials 73 3.3 Biomass, the Base of
the Supply Chain 77 3.4 The Interception of Light by Crop Canopies: How the
Molecular Scale Impacts on Food Supply Chain Efficiency 79 3.5 The
Requirement for Breeding New Crop Varieties and Selecting for Increased
Sink Capacity of Crops 83 3.6 Photosynthetic Metabolism, the Biochemical
Driver of Production 84 3.7 Environmental Stress Events and Their Impacts
on Food Supply 86 3.8 The Principles of Integrated Management across the
Food Chain: A Food Supply Chain Perspective 90 3.9 The Modern Agricultural
System, the Dietary Interface, and Food Supply 91 References 93 4 The
Sociological Basis for Food Security 97 4.1 Challenges and Solutions 97 4.2
Free Trade Transitions into Sustainability 101 4.3 Increasing Food Supplies
Have Been a Major Achievement since 1975, but There Is Increased Resource
Nationalism Evident by the Emergence of 'National Interests in a Shrinking
World' 102 4.4 A Demonstration of Energy Balance and LCA for Sugar
Production in Europe 110 4.5 Carbon Footprinting for Food Manufacturers
Begins to Offer a Sustainability Reporting Framework 117 4.6 What Can We Do
with Sustainability Assessments of Food Products? Using Carbon Footprint
Data in Supply Chain Management 122 4.7 The Interactions between
Affordability, Accessibility, and Food Security 124 4.8 Retail,
Distribution, and Wholesale 131 4.9 Developing Diets for Improved
Sustainability and Health Criteria 142 References 147 5 Challenges and
Solutions 153 5.1 The Food System Challenge of This Century: Is a
Sustainable Diet Now Defined? 153 5.2 Supply Chain Challenges: Integrating
the LCA Approaches in Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Retail 159 5.3
Visualising the Data from the Food System Using GIS-LCA 164 5.4 Technology
Enablers and Opportunities 167 References 172 6 The Future and Our
Conclusion 177 6.1 The Future Food System 177 6.2 Our Conclusion 186
References 189 Index 191