Transforming Food Systems

The Quest for Sustainability
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80146-859-6
Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

There is an almost universal recognition that modern agri-food supply chains are unsustainable. They are seen as both contributing to and vulnerable to climate change, too reliant on environmentally-damaging synthetic inputs, as undermining biodiversity, generating significant losses and waste and failing to deliver the nutritious food required for a healthy, balanced diet.

This book traces the evolution of the current global food production system and reviews competing approaches to achieving more sustainable production, starting with ‘neo-productivist’ and ‘reformist’ approaches which promote new technologies as a way forward, such as genetic modification, vertical farming and synthetic foods (plant-based meat alternatives and cultured meat).

The book also considers the pros and cons of ‘progressive’ approaches, such as regenerative and organic agriculture, as well as the more radical solutions which seek to achieve a more fundamental reform of the food system.

Zielgruppe

University and other researchers in agriculture, rural studies, food policy and environmental science, as well as government personnel involved in developing policies for agriculture and food production

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Dave

Watson, Dr Dave

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 The global food system
- 1.Emergence of the global food system
- 2.Trouble at t'mill
- 3.Drivers and outcomes of change

Part 2 Competing paradigms of food production
- 4.Neo-productivist food systems
- 5.Reformist food systems
- 6.Progressive food systems
- 7.Radical food systems

Part 3 The golden chalice of sustainability and the evolution of food systems
- 8.The golden chalice of sustainability
- 9.Food system evolution

Über Autor(innen)

Watson, Dr Dave
Dr Dave Watson is a leading authority on sustainable development and optimising value chains in agriculture. He has taught courses on sustainable development for the University of Hull (UK), as well as managing research and development programmes for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico. Dr Watson is editor of the two-volume Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize, also published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.

Dr Dave Watson is a leading authority on sustainability issues affecting agriculture. He has taught at the University of Hull, UK as well as managing research programmes for the International Livestock Research Institute, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.