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The challenges of the world food crisis
According to the United Nations World Food and Agriculture Program, the rise in prices plunged 75 million persons below the threshold of hunger, carrying the estimated number of underfed persons in the world at 923 millions in 2007. And if the food crisis that occured in spring 2008 was "eliminated" by the financial crisis, it is not solved and constitutes a major world challenge.
The marketplace instability and the volubility of prices are only a few aspects of the food crisis. The regular access to basic food supply at accessible prices constitute first plan issues and not only because of the increase in demand.
If it is asserted that demographic growth and climate changes remain explicative factors for the tension on the food supply marketplace, the crisis intensity always remains a political affair. Preventing a food crisis means knowing how to foresee and organize the access to cereals for the weakest, those who live in urban areas, and most of all the rural, in inaccessible areas.
Partly piloted by Pierre Janin, geograph, researcher in the Institute for Research & Development (IRD), this edition of Hérodote gives an opportunity to economists, anthropologists and agronomists to speak and to draw up an inventory of food shock in the world and more particularly in Africa, seriously damaged, and assess options which come out to get out of this crisis.
About the Magazine
The magazine Hérodote, created and managed by Yves Lacoste since 1976, quarterly, tries hard to promote a geography of action and a new and global conception of geopolitics. Within the framework of thematic numbers and by appealing to recognized specialists, it pursues demanding reading of a world which becomes more and more complex.
- Author : Yves Lacoste
- Publisher : Les Éditions de la Découverte
- Collection : Revue Hérodote n°131
- Web : http://www.editionsladecouverte.fr
- Language : French
- Publication date : January 2009
- ISBN : 9782707156495
- Paperback : 208 pages
- Format : 170 * 200 mm
- Price : 20 €
