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Food Security in Australia Challenges and Prospects for the Future /

Food security is a major global issue.� Developing nations are particularly affected, but developed countries like Australia also face challenges, such as the growing cost of nutritious food, the emerging economic and social burden of diet-related health problems, and the exposure of food production...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Farmar-Bowers, Quentin. (Editor), Higgins, Vaughan. (Editor), Millar, Joanne. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Subjects:
Chemistry.
Food science.
Regional planning.
Agriculture.
Social policy.
Food Science.
Social Policy.
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4484-8
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Food Security Problem in Australia
  • Part I. Food Equity and Access
  • 2. Food Security in Australia  The Logistics of Vulnerability
  • 3. Ethics of Food Security
  • 4. Interdisciplinary Conversations on Complexities of Food/In Security
  • 5. Institutional Capacity of Local Government to Embed Food Security into Policy
  • 6. The Question of a Reasonable Price for Food: Policy Alternatives to Control Food Price Inflation in Developed Economies.-�7. Selecting Interventions for Food Security in Remote Indigenous Communities.-�8. Hungry for Change: The Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
  • 9. Community Supported Agriculture and Agri-Food Networks: Growing Food, Community and Sustainability?.-�10. The Emergency Relief Sector in Victoria, Australia
  • Chapter 11. Case Studies on Food Equity and Access
  • Part II. Food Production, Policy and Trade
  • 12. The Impacts of Climate Change on Australias Food Production and Exports
  • 13. Increasing Food Production Sustainably in a Changing Climate  Understanding the Pressures and Potential
  • 14. Enhancing Food Security in Australia by Supporting Transformative Change
  • 15. Framing the Research Needs for Food Security in Australia
  • 16. Water Sovereignty and Food Security
  • 17. Food Security and Soil Health
  • 18. Australian Food Security Dilemmas  Comparing Nutritious Production Scenarios and their Environmental, Resource and Economic Tensions
  • 19. Sustainable Standards? How Organic Standards in the EU and Australia Affect Local and Global Agri-Food Production and Value Chains
  • 20. How do you Eat the Elephant in the Room? Agri-Food Sustainability and King Island
  • 21. A New Harvest of the Suburbs
  • 22. �Farming in Rural Amenity Landscapes  Maintaining Food Productivity in a Changing Environment
  • 23. Food Security in a Two Speed Economy: Horticultural Production in Western Australia
  • 24. Case Studies on Food Production, Policy, and Trade
  • Part III. Land Use and Planning
  • 25. Is Food a Missing Ingredient in Australias Metropolitan Planning Strategies?
  • 26. Help or Hindrance? The Relationship between Land Use Planning and Urban Agriculture on the Gold Coast
  • 27. Farming the City Fringe: Dilemmas for Peri-Urban Planning
  • 28. By Accident or Design? Peri-Urban Planning and the Protection of Productive Land on the Urban Fringe
  • 29. Development, Dilution and Functional Change in the Peri-Urban Landscape: What does it Really Mean for Agriculture?
  • 30. Final Word: Australias Food Security Challenges.

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