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. Food or Consequences: Food Security and Its Implications for Global Sociopolitical Stability ; 2. The Future of the Global Food Economy ; 3. What Do We Know about the Climate of the Next Decade? ; 4. The Global Land Rush ; 5. Global Freshwater and Food Security in the Face of Potential Adversity ; 6. Managing Marine Resources for Food and Human Security ; 7. Crop Technologies for the Coming Decade ; 8. Livestock Futures to 2020 ; 9. Labor Migration and Food Security in a Changing Climate ; 10. Trade Policies and Global Food Security ; 11. Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability: A Humanitarian Perspective ; 12. Moral Economies of Food Security and Protest in Latin America ; 13. Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa ; 14. Lessons from the Arab Spring: Food Security and Stability in the Middle East and North Africa ; 15. Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia ; 16. Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in South Asia ; 17. When China Runs Out of Farmers ; 18. Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in East and Southeast Asia