Reclaiming food security / Michael Carolan.

• Superior document: Earthscan food and agriculture
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Carolan, Michael S.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Earthscan food and agriculture.
• Physical Description: xvii, 196 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

A failed project -- Food security: a brief history -- Calorie-ization of food security -- Neoliberalization of food security -- Empty calorie-ization of food security -- Pieces missed -- Well-being and nutrition -- Life expectancy -- Subjective indicators of well-being -- Aggregate well-being indicators -- Nutritional well-being -- Sustainability -- Greenhouse gas emissions -- Energy consumption -- Water -- Waste -- Meat -- Environmental performance index: agriculture -- Food sovereignty, safety and access -- Farmer dependency -- Constricting consumer choice -- Food safety -- Import dependency -- Looking forward -- The food and human security index -- Individual and society well-being -- Ecological sustainability -- Potential for food independence -- Nutritional well-being -- Freedom in agrifood chain -- Results -- Lessons learned -- From Green Revolution to rainbow evolution -- So what can we eat if not GDP? -- Food security as process (not a thing) -- Towards a new social imaginary.