Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability - Brown, Molly E. (Taylor and Francis, 2014)
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 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; Index
The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods. This book uses a decade of primary research to examine 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. The author reviews environmental, economics and multidisciplinary research to describe the connection betwee