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Selected journal title(s)
This is a short list of journals on Food. You can also search for articles in using the search box at the top of the page.
Food policyCall Number: Electronic journalFood Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. ...
Food security by Call Number: Electronic journalFood Security is an interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions.
Frontiers in sustainable food systems by Call Number: Electronic journalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research on one of the biggest challenges of our time: sustainably achieving global food security. ...
Government information on Food Security
The title below is just one of many government documents in the Library collection that look at food security. Do a keyword search for "food security" and you will find more.
- Global Food Security Act of 2009: report (to accompany S. 384) byCall Number: Available electronically
- Oversight of the Feed the Future Initiative: joint hearing byCall Number: Available electronically
- Promoting global food security: next steps for Congress and the administration byCall Number: Available electronically
A Definition for food security
Food security The status of people who live without hunger, fear of hunger, or starvation. ‘Food security depends on robust food systems that encompass issues of availability, access and utilization—not merely production alone’ ( Gregory et al. (2005) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 360, 21). ‘A key component of these newer definitions of food security is attention to building local capacity to produce and distribute food and control food supplies…[and] to keep decision-making power within the community rather than losing it through dependence on external sources of food’ (Anderson and Cook in J. Harris 2000). In southern Africa, for example, climate is among the most frequently cited drivers of food insecurity, while in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India, labour and the availability and quality of ground water for irrigation rank higher than the direct effects of climate (Gregory et al., loc. cit.)
Korf and Bauer (2002) IIED Gatekeeper Series 106 explain the need to address food availability, access, and utilization simultaneously. Slocum (2006) Antipode 38, 2, in a study of a community food coalition in New York, reveals that ‘people of color disproportionately experience food insecurity, lose their farms and face the dangerous work of food processing and agricultural labor’. See Hyman et al. (2005) Food Policy 30 on poverty and food security mapping; and P. Porter (2006).
"food security" A Dictionary of Geography. Susan Mayhew. Oxford University Press 2009 Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Dartmouth College. 1 October 2010
In the Library's collections
You can search the online catalog using the following subject headings to find relevant resources:
- food insecurityThis is a keyword search.
- food dynamicsThis is a keyword search.
Introductory reading(s)
The atlas of food: who eats what, where, and why by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9000.5 .M52 2008ISBN: 9780520254091Publication Date: 2nd ed.What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book. The Atlas of Food provides an up-to-date and visually appealing way of understanding the important issues relating to global food and agriculture. In mapping out broad areas of investigation--contamination of food and water, overnutrition, micronutrient deficiency, processing, farming, and trade--it offers a concise overview of today's food and farming concerns. ...
Encyclopedia of food and culture by Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. GT 2850 .E53 2003ISBN: 9780684805689This three-volume set presents 600 articles on food and its place in human culture and society, covering everything from agronomy to zucchini. ...
Encyclopedia of food security and sustainability by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780128126882The Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability covers the hottest topics in the science of food sustainability, providing a synopsis of the path society is on to secure food for a growing population. It investigates the focal issue of sustainable food production in relation to the effects of global change on food resources, biodiversity and global food security. This collection of methodological approaches and knowledge derived from expert authors around the world offers the research community, food industry, scientists and students with the knowledge to relate to, and report on, the novel challenges of food production and sustainability. ...
Food security by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9000.5 .M36 2010ISBN: 9780745648088Throughout history, human societies have struggled to ensure that all people have access to sufficient food to lead active and healthy lives. Despite great global effort, events of the early 21st century clearly demonstrate that food remains a pressing challenge which has significant implications for security. In this book, Bryan McDonald explores how processes of globalization and global change have reshaped food systems in ways that have significant impacts for the national security of states and the human of communities and individuals. ...
What I eat: around the world in 80 diets by Call Number: Matthews Fuller Consumer Health TX 353 .M437 2010ISBN: 9780984074402In this fascinating study of people and their diets, 80 profiles are organized by the total number of calories each person puts away in a day. Featuring a Japanese sumo wrestler, a Massai herdswoman, world-renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria, an American competitive eater, and more, these compulsively readable personal stories also include demographic particulars, including age, activity level, height, and weight. ...
World at risk: a global issues sourcebook by Call Number: Baker-Berry JZ 1242 .W67 2002ISBN: 9781568027074World at Risk provides international coverage through an examination of current global issues. This extensive sourcebook is arranged by global issue in A to Z format. The book includes 30 entries on hot topics such as human rights, population, literacy and educational access, energy, terrorism, war crimes, and much more. ...
World food security: a history since 1945 by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9000.5 .S425 2007ISBN: 9780230553552This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues.
Selected book titles
Agriculture, food security, poverty and environment: essays on post-reform India by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 2072 .H325 2005ISBN: 9780195671957This book spells out a reform agenda for agriculture, food security, poverty alleviation, and management of natural resources. The author argues that economic reforms need to take due account of initial conditions, i.e. socio-inequalities, insufficient infrastructure, and inadequate social development as well as the compulsions of a democratic polity.
Arctic food security by Call Number: Baker-Berry GN 673 .S97 2008 textISBN: 9781896445427Traditional food production and food economies have changed drastically as a result of social, economic, and political influences. A decrease in subsistence production and consumption of country food and concomitant increase in imported and prepared food has brought increased health risks. But neither are country foods without risk, with impacts of contamination, climate, and cultural change. ...
Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9502.5 .B543 A353 2011ISBN: 9781848138780The issue of biofuels has already been much debated, but the focus to date has largely been on Latin America and deforestation - this highly original work breaks fresh ground in looking at the African perspective. Most African governments see biofuels as having the potential to increase agricultural productivity and export incomes and thus strengthen their national economies, improving energy balances and rural employment. At the same time climate change may be addressed through reduction of green house gas emissions. There are, however, a number of uncertainties mounting that challenge this scenario. ...
Feeding everyone no matter what: managing food security after global catastrophe by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9000.6 .D46 2015ISBN: 9780128044476Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production. The primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up enough food to feed everyone would take a significant amount of time and would increase the price of food, killing additional people due to inadequate global access to affordable food. ...
Food security, nutrition and sustainability by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9000.5 .L394 2010ISBN: 9781844077755As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of food production and food access are of particular concern in the context of climate change, 'peak oil', biofuels, and land grabs by wealthy nations. Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability offers critical insights by international scholars, with chapters on global food security, supermarket power, new technologies, and sustainability. ...
Food security: indicators, measurement, and the impact of trade openness by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9018 .D44 F66563 2007ISBN: 9780199236558What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new toolsand indicators? Does women's socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy? Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to end poverty. ...
Hunger efforts and food security by Call Number: Baker-Berry HV 696 .F6 H792 2009ISBN: 9781606921784In 1996, the United States and more than 180 world leaders pledged to halve the number of undernourished people globally by 2015 from the 1990 level. The global number has not decreased significantly -- remaining at about 850 million in 2001-2003 -- and the number in sub-Saharan Africa has increased from about 170 million in 1990-1992 to over 200 million in 2001-2003. On the basis of analyses of U.S. and international agency documents, structured panel discussions with experts and practitioners, and fieldwork in four African countries, the author was asked to examine (1) factors that contribute to persistent food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and (2) the extent to which host governments and donors, including the United States, are working toward halving hunger in the region by 2015.
Hungry for profit: the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment by Call Number: Baker-Berry HD 9000.5 .H86 2000ISBN: 9781583670156Publication Date: \Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species diversity. This penetrating set of essays explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. ...
Other library resource(s)
Other resources include films, maps, audio recordings and other formats that are not print.
10 billion: what's on your plate? by Call Number: Streaming videoBy 2050, the world population will grow to ten billion people. In the midst of the heated debate about food security comes this broad and analytic look into the enormous spectrum of global food production and distribution - from artificial meat, insects, industrial farming to trendy self - cultivation. Director Valentin Thurn seeks for worldwide solutions and gives room for innovation and inspiring visions for our future.
allAfrica.comCall Number: Electronic resourceContains over 700,000 articles from 100 news publications throughout Africa and from several hundred other sources, including governments, non-governmental organizations and other news makers, inside and outside of Africa.
Big spuds, little spuds by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #10090Examines the effects of climate change and monoculture on the potato, focusing on agricultural practices in Peru and Idaho. Also examines to what extent pests, disease and climate change are threatening other crops and world food security.
FAOSTAT by Call Number: Electronic resourceAn online, multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in: production, trade, food-balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products, agricultural machinery and population.
The future of foodCall Number: Jones Media DVD #4382Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.- Harvest of fear byCall Number: Jones Media Video tape #4573Frontline and Nova explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, government regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology.
- Sustainability and security byCall Number: Jones Media DVD #13119For decades, local food producers in the West have faced a shrinking market share. Will Africans have more to eat if well-intentioned Americans and Europeans stop eating vegetables from Africa? Or African farmers be deprived of a living? This program delves into that issue and other food-related problems, some of which have solutions while others urgently await answers. Viewers are shown how tenuous food security in Kenya does not stop the country from exporting most of its produce to the West while potentially leasing large portions of arable land to Qatar. The film also profiles small UK growers, offers carbon footprint comparisons between livestock producers in New Zealand and Great Britain, and features commentary from Earth Policy Institute president Lester Brown and other experts.
Internet resource(s)
- Civil Eats
Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities. ... - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO-UN)
Our three main goals are: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources, including land, water, air, climate and genetic resources for the benefit of present and future generations. - Food Environment Atlas (USDA)
This atlas is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Among some of the variables is food security by state. - Food Security from the USDAUSDA developed household food security measures to empower local communities to assess their food security levels and incorporate their results into the national nutrition monitoring system, providing a rich data source for analyzing changes in the level and distribution of food security in the United States. ...
- Food Security from The World Bank
The world needs to produce at least 50% more food to feed 9 billion people by 2050. But climate change could cut crop yields by more than 25%. The land, biodiversity, oceans, forests, and other forms of natural capital are being depleted at unprecedented rates. Unless we change how we grow our food and manage our natural capital, food security—especially for the world’s poorest—will be at risk. - Global Food Security Index
The Global Food Security Index considers the core issues of affordability, availability, and quality across a set of 105 countries. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations. - Special Programme for Food SecurityThe Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) helps governments replicate successful food security practices on a national scale. The SPFS also encourages investment in rural infrastructure, off-farm income generation, urban agriculture and safety nets.
- The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the WorldEvery year, this most intensely scrutinized of FAO’s reports presents the headline number of undernourished people around the world, while advocating for strategies against hunger and malnutrition. Following publication of the global report, a wealth of statistics is disaggregated into regional reports. SOFI is jointly produced with fellow UN agencies IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO.
- WDR - Agriculture for DevelopmentThe World Bank’s World Development Report is an invaluable guide to the economic, social, and environmental state of the world today. Each report provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of development—from agriculture, the role of the state, transition economies, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. ...
- WhyHungerWhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.
- World Food SituationFrom the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, this site collects all the information on food crises in one place.
