Overview
- Includes topics such as Global Value Chains, responsible investment, green growth strategies, financial innovation, gender issues, agro-food supply chain dynamics and sustainability issues and recent advances in consumer behaviour
- Presents much needed new approaches and analytical tools
- Critically discusses two of the Millenium Development Goals and stated strategic global development objectives, Food Security and Sustainability
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This edited volume brings together contributions from experts on a range of food security issues, and examines them through a number of case studies. A Millennium Development goal and important policy concern, food security is experiencing renewed interest due to globalisation, which has led to population affluence, changing consumption, and production and trade patterns. The authors discuss how globalisation brings a new dimension to the discussion on public policy on food security, and consider the extent to which Global Value Chains (GVCs) dominate trade, investment and international agricultural markets. Food Security and Sustainability therefore sheds new light on the nexus of food security and globalization, as well as its implications for investment and financing in the agro-food sector. The volume draws on papers presented at the inaugural Workshop of the Mediterranean Center for Food Security and Sustainable Growth (MED-SEC), an international network of academics focusing on issues of development, sustainability and food security.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
George Mergos is Professor of Economics, University of Athens, Greece and chairman of MED-SEC. He has published extensively on issues of development micro-economics, agricultural development and public policy. He has previously worked for the World Bank and consulted widely for FAO and the EU on development cooperation.
Marina Papanastassiou is Professor of International Business at Middlesex University Business School, UK. She is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy and a founding member MED-SEC. She has published extensively on the topic of multinational enterprises in international refereed journals and books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Security and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Investment and Financing along Agro-Food Chains
Editors: George Mergos, Marina Papanastassiou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40790-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40789-0Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82184-9Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40790-6Published: 26 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 268
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainability Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Supply Chain Management, Investments and Securities