Walter Leal Filho & Marina Kovaleva 
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security 

This book describes initiatives and concrete examples on sustainable food production worldwide. In the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns for all, this book provides a contribution towards a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the cross-cutting issues related to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security. This interdisciplinary book supports the efforts to engage a commitment from all fields of science, to work together to provide knowledge that could help to address SDG2 (No hunger) and lead to the promotion of quality of life, by means of a more sustainable food production, and improved food security. 

This book is expected to fill the gap of publications in this field. It gives a special emphasis to a state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods,  initiatives and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable food production. It includes examples of policies and practices case studies, examples of projects, institutional policies, innovative methods and tools and research outputs, which highlight the interdependence between sustainable agriculture and food security issues. It is expected that the “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security” will make the many benefits of sustainable food production clearer and, inter alia, lead to an increase in the emphasis provided to this central theme.

 

Inhoudsopgave

Supporting Sustainable Agriculture.- The concept of sustainable agriculture.- Agriculture-food nexus. The paradox of sustainable development in Mexico.- Prosocial Partnerships – A Scalable Pathway to Sustainable Agricultural Development.- Towards sustainable agriculture in Serbia: Empirical insights from a spatial planning perspective.- Climate adaptive agriculture: A smallholders case study of the Southwestern highlands of Ethiopia.- Differentiated intra-household food utilization in Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality, South Africa.