Issues in Caribbean Food Security: Building Capacity in Local Food Production Systems

10.5772/32157 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton Beckford
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Local Food Production

scholarly journals Optimizing cropland cover for stable food production in Sub-Saharan Africa using simulated yield and Modern Portfolio Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1571-1606 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Bodin ◽  
S. Olin ◽  
T. A. M. Pugh ◽  
A. Arneth
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Portfolio Theory ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Modern Portfolio Theory ◽  
Local Food Production ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Access To Food

Abstract. Food security can be defined as stable access to food of good nutritional quality. In Sub Saharan Africa access to food is strongly linked to local food production and the capacity to generate enough calories to sustain the local population. Therefore it is important in these regions to generate not only sufficiently high yields but also to reduce interannual variability in food production. Traditionally, climate impact simulation studies have focused on factors that underlie maximum productivity ignoring the variability in yield. By using Modern Portfolio Theory, a method stemming from economics, we here calculate optimum current and future crop selection that maintain current yield while minimizing variance, vs. maintaining variance while maximizing yield. Based on simulated yield using the LPJ-GUESS dynamic vegetation model, the results show that current cropland distribution for many crops is close to these optimum distributions. Even so, the optimizations displayed substantial potential to either increase food production and/or to decrease its variance regionally. Our approach can also be seen as a method to create future scenarios for the sown areas of crops in regions where local food production is important for food security.

Phosphorus: Past History and Contributions to the Global Food Supply

2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Past History ◽  
Phosphate Fertilizer ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

Since its early rudimentary forms, phosphate fertilizer has developed in step with our understanding of successful food production systems. Recognized as essential to life, the responsible use P in agriculture remains key to food security.

Food Security in Hawai‘i

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kent
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
State Government ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
The State ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Low Income Consumers

This chapter challenges the uncritical pursuit of food self-sufficiency that has been rationalized as increasing the state’s preparedness against shipping disruption. It argues that this effort might increase food’s cost, and reiterates the point that local food is not necessarily fair as low-income consumers could be sidelined in the push for food localization. In contrast to the enthusiasm for promoting agriculture and local food production in the state, relatively little has been done in addressing food insecurity of the poor, especially by the state government. Food democracy needs to consider food security for all—particularly the poor and the marginalized.

Regional Economies of Local Food Production

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Maye ◽  
Brian Ilbery
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Local Food Production
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