xxix, 194 pages, 2 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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1.The Basis for Food Security -- 1.1.Defining What Food Security Is and How Food Supply Chains Can Deliver It -- 1.2.The Convergence of Food Security Research, Economics, and Policy -- 1.3.The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- 1.4.Measuring Hunger in a Changing World to Establish Security -- 1....

2.4.Consumption and Population Growth: Demonstrating the Impact of Dietary Changes and Transitions -- 2.5.Optimising Nutrition across Supply Chains Is the Focus of the Second Green Revolution -- 2.6.The Emergence of Sustainable Farming Reconnecting Supply Chains: A Case Study of the Establishment of...

3.The Scientific Basis for Food Security -- 3.1.The Supply of Essential Plant Nutrients -- 3.2.Plant Nutrients and Phytonutrients in the Food Supply Chain: Establishing a Nutritional Understanding Using Human Trials -- 3.3.Biomass, the Base of the Supply Chain -- 3.4.The Interception of Light by Cro...

4.3.Increasing Food Supplies Have Been a Major Achievement since 1975, but There Is Increased Resource Nationalism Evident by the Emergence of 'National Interests in a Shrinking World' -- 4.4.A Demonstration of Energy Balance and LCA for Sugar Production in Europe -- 4.5.Carbon Footprinting for Food...

5.3.Visualising the Data from the Food System Using GIS-LCA -- 5.4.Technology Enablers and Opportunities -- References -- 6.The Future and Our Conclusion -- 6.1.The Future Food System -- 6.2.Our Conclusion -- References.