@inbook {6877, title = {The Food Crisis and Global Governance}, booktitle = {The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities}, year = {2009}, pages = {3-12}, publisher = {WLU Press}, organization = {WLU Press}, address = {Waterloo}, abstract = {

The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world{\textquoteright}s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture.

In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making.

}, url = {https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/T/The-Global-Food-Crisis}, author = {Jennifer Clapp and Marc J. Cohen}, editor = {Jennifer Clapp and Marc J. Cohen} }