Food Security and Global Environmental Change

Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people. At the same time, agriculture and other food-related activities also contribute to GEC by. for example, intensifying greenhouse gas emissions and altering the land surface. This book provides a major, acessible synthesis of the current state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between GEC and food security. It reviews new thinking which has emerged over the last decade, analyses research methods for stakeholder engagement and for undertaking studies at the regional level, and looks forward by reviewing a number of emerging `hot topics' in the food security. GEC debate which help set new agendas for the research community at large.

John Ingram is Executive Officer at the Global Environmental Change and Food System (GECAFS) International Project Office. Environmental Change Institute (ECI). Univeristy of Oxford. UK.
Polly Ericksen is 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.