Transforming Food Systems

The Quest for Sustainability

Dave Watson

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Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
09 July 2024

Agriculture & related industries; Agricultural science

Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

There is an almost universal recognition that modern agri-food supply chains are unsustainable. They are seen as both contributing to and vulnerable to climate change, too reliant on environmentally-damaging synthetic inputs, as undermining biodiversity, generating significant losses and waste and failing to deliver the nutritious food required for a healthy, balanced diet.

Transforming food systems: The quest for sustainability addresses one of the greatest global challenges of our time: how to reform food systems so they are more sustainable but still able to produce the food we need. The book traces the evolution of the current global food production system and reviews competing approaches to achieving more sustainable production, starting with ‘reformist’ approaches which promote new technologies as a way forward, such as genetic modification and synthetic foods.

This collection also considers the pros and cons of ‘progressive’ approaches, such as regenerative and organic agriculture, as well as the more radical solutions which seek to achieve a more fundamental reform of the food system.

As the world tackles the central question of how food should be produced in the future, this book provides readers with an authoritative guide to the various solutions on offer and how to assess which road we should take.

By: Dave Watson
Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781786764553
ISBN 10: 1786764555
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 09 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Part 1 The global food system 1.Emergence of the global food system 2.Trouble at t'mill 3.Drivers and outcomes of change Part 2 Competing paradigms of food production 4.Neo-productivist food systems 5.Reformist food systems 6.Progressive food systems 7.Radical food systems Part 3 The golden chalice of sustainability and the evolution of food systems 8.The golden chalice of sustainability 9.Food system evolution

Dr Dave Watson is a leading authority on sustainable development and optimising value chains in agriculture. He has taught courses on sustainable development for the University of Hull (UK), as well as managing research and development programmes for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico. Dr Watson is editor of the two-volume Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize, also published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.