The Challenge of Food Security: International Policy and Regulatory Frameworks

This timely study addresses the pressing issue of food security through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, providing both scholarly and policy-making perspectives. It sets the discussion on food security within the little-studied context of its international legal and regulatory framework. The expert contributors explore the key issues from a development perspective and through the lens of existing governance and policy systems with a view to articulating how these systems can be made more effective in dealing with the roots of food insecurity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857939378
• ISBN13: 9780857939371
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"