Agriculture and food security
By M. Swaminathan, R. Pandya-Lorch, S. Yosef. 2008
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The discourse about agriculture and its link to food security evolved greatly over the past century. Early thinking focused solely on the ability to increase production of staple foods to meet a real or assumed growth in population. Modern discourse looks at agriculture as a way to meet food security in all its facets, including availability of and access to food and nutrition diets among individuals and households, as well as the health of producers, consumers, and the environment. Furthermore, agriculture has a role in economic growth, at the national level as well in the livelihoods of rural populations. Yet this more holistic view of agriculture and food security is often challenging to put into practice, as evidenced by case studies of countries in M. S. Swaminathan, R. Pandya-Lorch, and S. Yosef Agriculture and Food Security Chapter 25 Page 2 Asia and Africa. Recent food price crises put agriculture and food security back on the global agenda, giving the sector a chance to reinvent itself.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Soil Science
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