Interactive Governance Towards Food Security in Village Level

eXtra Botany FOOD SECURITY Food standards: the cacophony of governance

Although long distance trade in food goes back at least as far as Columbus, the recent wave of food globalization is unprecedented in human history. But despite the existence of the Codex Alimentarius, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Trade Organization, there is no central authority that governs the many facets of food. Instead, we have arrived at a food network that is gov...

India's Quest towards Food Security

India is home to one-sixth of the global population. When India became independent in 1947, the country was not self-sufficient in food production and did not have an appropriate food distribution system. There were pockets in the country which faced threat of famine and starvation whenever monsoon failed or staple production was low. Over three fourth of the population was poor, food insecure ...

Governance and Food Security in an Aga of Globalization

Global food security and the governance of modern biotechnologies.

Food security has become an issue of serious concern because global food supplies are threatened by systemic collapse. increasing demand for food caused by global population growth, changing lifestyles in developing countries, climate change and competition with bio fuels are combining to create a ‘perfect storm’ (godfray et al, 2010). Moreover, short-term weather pattern changes leading to flo...

HYBRID GOVERNANCE Hybrid governance and democratisation— village governance in Timor-Leste

In 2004, the Government of Timor-Leste introduced elections to villages (suku). Timor-Leste had only been formally independent since 20021, after some centuries of colonisation by Portugal (variable in the timing and degree of penetration), almost twenty-five years of more systematic occupation by Indonesia (1975–99), and two years of centralised transitional administration by the United Nation...