Food Security and Global Environmental Change

Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Food Security and Global Environmental Change 1. Food Security and the Global Environment: an Overview 2. The Value of the Food Systems Approach 3. Lessons Learned from International Assessments 4. Part I Main Messages Part II: Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation in Food Systems 5. Vulnerability and Resilience of Food Systems 6. What is Vulnerable? 7. Vulnerability to What? 8. Adapting Food Systems 9. Part II Main Messages Part III: Engaging Stakeholders 10. The Science-Policy Interface 11. Engaging Stakeholders at the Regional Level 12. Part III Main Messages Part IV: A Regional Approach 13. Why Regions? 14. Stakeholders' Approaches to Regional Food Security Research 15. Undertaking Research at the Regional Level 16. Part IV Main Messages Part V: Food Systems in a Changing World 17. Food, Violence and Human Rights 18. Governance Beyond the State: Non-state Actors and Food Systems 19. Green Food Systems for 9 billion 20. Surprises and Possibilities 21. Part V Main Messages 22. Reflection on the Book Editorial Committee 1. Diana Liverman (Chair) University of Arizona, USA & University of Oxford, UK 2. Mike Brklacich Carleton University, Canada 3. Polly Ericksen University of Oxford, UK 4. Anita Ghosh University of Oxford, UK 5. Peter Gregory Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK 6. John Ingram (Lead Editor) University of Oxford, UK 7. Anne-Marie Izac Future Harvest Alliance Office, Italy 8. Jim Jones University of Florida, US 9. Veronique Plocq-Fichelet SCOPE, France 10. Keith Wiebe UN FAO, Italy

John Ingram is Executive Officer at the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) International Project Office, Environmental Change Institute (ECI), Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK. Polly Ericksen was Science Officer at the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) International Project Office, Environmental Change Institute (ECI), Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK. She is now at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya. Diana Liverman is Chair of the GECAFS Scientific Advisory Committee, co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona and a Visiting Professor in Environmental Policy and Development in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

'The enormity of the food security challenge is now widely accepted but there is less agreement on analyses, solutions, emphases and policy directions...The urgency of the task is why this weighty collection is so welcome and so important. It is a major contribution to our global policy thinking.' Tim Lang, City University, UK 'The enormity of the food security challenge is now widely accepted but there is less agreement on analyses, solutions, emphases and policy directions. We need to fuse action on social, environmental and supply fronts, and to engender change on a scale and with a rapidity which only comes in crises. The urgency of the task is why this weighty collection is so welcome and so important. It is a major contribution to our global policy thinking.' Tim Lang, City University, UK 'This book helps us understand the complex linkages between food security and global environmental change. Drawing on detailed case studies from diverse regions, it shows the kind of actions needed to counter food insecurity and ensure investments pay off. Its focus on whole food systems, rather than on agriculture alone, gives it a special place in the literature.' Bruce Campbell, CGIAR Program 'Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security', University of Copenhagen, Denmark 'This book provides an innovative, timely and relevant analysis of food security issues that encourages the reader to think outside the box in both analysis and action. It goes beyond the usual climate change and agriculture discussion and, by combining an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it conveys clear messages for policy making at various levels.' Cheikh Mbow, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar-Senegal, Senegal 'Food security for many is already a critical issue and the situation is getting accentuated further in the context of increasing uncertainties not only from global environmental change but from other factors such as globalization. This volume, therefore, is very timely in bringing