Food security covers aspects at all spatial levels from local to global and from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. This book aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socioeconomic, political, technological, and institutional drivers, costs, and outcomes of current and future food security. Interactions with contextual factors inc...

As combined new factors could further complicate the food supply and health security for regional countries, new perspective on human security should be prioritized on securing health security in the region. In recent years, food production and supply has been affected by unpredictable climate change and unaccountable manmade factors in the region. With increased pressure from food security iss...

cash transfer (cts) is an increasingly popular social protection mechanism used by many developing countries to improve the food security and nutritional status of lower socio-economic groups. this paper is a review of the literature regarding the impact of ct programs on the food security of recipient households in the developing countries, including iran. we looked for all original studies, p...

Security as one of the basic human needs has a special place in relaxation, comfort and spiritual needs provision. For this reason, security is always of managers, planners, architects and urban designers' interest. Solutions and strategies of security provision have been fundamentally changed following prevailing change of housing architecture patterns from homes to residential complexes and h...

In 1994, to much fanfare, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) introduced the concept of “human security,” proclaiming that this idea, “though simple, is likely to revolutionize society in the twenty-first century.” Human security, the UNDP noted in its Human Development Report, was a way of moving beyond the emphasis on the territorial security of national states and the insecurity ...

In this paper, we discuss the advanced sensor based system framework for security application is proposed in eGovernance security areas. Like online voting, online transaction, online payment and automatic transportation management system. Fidelity and stability are contradicting factors in security system. Most of security manipulations nowadays are performed manually by the human operators. I...