Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability

Chris Barrett is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and International Professor of Agriculture in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management as well as Professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University where he also serves as the Director of the Cornell Institute for International Food, Agriculture and Development's initiative on Stimulating Agricultural and Rural Transformation. He holds degrees from Princeton (A.B., History, 1984), Oxford (M.S., Development Economics, 1985) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (dual Ph.D., Economics and Agricultural Economics, 1994). He has published several books and more than 250 journal articles or book chapters. He served as editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2003-2008, and is an associate editor or editorial board member of the African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Egerton (Kenya) Journal of Humanities.

Rising incomes and growing populations mean more mouths to feed with more and better food. This book warns the world that this rising demand for food is not being met with rising supply, and that young, hungry poor people will threaten global peace and prosperity. This is no alarmist tract, however, but a well-researched, considered, and balanced collection of essays, with an emphasis on ways that domestic and global policy can minimize risk. An important read for all in the food policy and international security communities.

• 1: Christopher B. Barrett: Food or Consequences: Food Security and Its Implications for Global Sociopolitical Stability 2: Mark W. Rosegrant, Simla Tokgoz, and Prapti Bhandary: The Future of the Global Food Economy 3: Mark A. Cane and Dong Eun Lee: What Do We Know about the Climate of the Next Decade? 4: Klaus Deininger: The Global Land Rush 5: Upmanu Lall: Global Freshwater and Food Security in the Face of Potential Adversity 6: Timothy R. McClanahan, Eddie H. Allison, and Joshua E. Cinner: Managing Marine Resources for Food and Human Security 7: Susan McCouch and Samuel Crowell: Crop Technologies for the Coming Decade 8: John McDermott, Dolapo Enahoro, and Mario Herrero: Livestock Futures to 2020 9: Robert McLeman: Labor Migration and Food Security in a Changing Climate 10: Kym Anderson: Trade Policies and Global Food Security 11: Daniel Maxwell: Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability: A Humanitarian Perspective 12: Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring: Moral Economies of Food Security and Protest in Latin America 13: Christopher B. Barrett and Joanna B. Upton: Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa 14: Travis J. Lybbert and Heather R. Morgan: Lessons from the Arab Spring: Food Security and Stability in the Middle East and North Africa 15: Johan Swinnen and Kristine Van Herck: Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 16: Arun Agrawal: Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in South Asia 17: Luc Christiaensen: When China Runs Out of Farmers 18: C. Peter Timmer: Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in East and Southeast Asia