Food security and food sustainability: reformulating the debate
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Food security and food sustainability: reformulating the debate
The notion of food security has an important history as a key concept for 20th-century policymakers. Two overarching perspectives on food security are identified. One centred on raising production as the core answer to under-consumption and hunger. The other is an emerging perspective, more social and ecological, accepting the need to address a complex array of problems, not just production. Th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Geographical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0016-7398
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00480.x