This book, edited by Pasquale Ferranti, Elliot Berry and Anderson Jock, offers readers a ‘one-stop’ resource on food security and sustainability. It has been written by both academics and practitioners.
Publisher’s summary
The Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability covers the hottest topics in the science of food sustainability, providing a synopsis of the path society is on to secure food for a growing population. It investigates the focal issue of sustainable food production in relation to the effects of global change on food resources, biodiversity and global food security. This collection of methodological approaches and knowledge derived from expert authors around the world offers the research community, food industry, scientists and students with the knowledge to relate to, and report on, the novel challenges of food production and sustainability.
Reference
Ferranti, P., Berry, E. and Jock, A. (eds.), 2018. Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
For more details and a full table of contents, see here. See also the Foodsource chapter An overview of food system challenges.
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