Includes bibliographical references and index

PART I Introduction - 1.The international policy and regulatory challenges of food security: an overview / Rosemary rayfuse and Nicole Weisfelt - PART II Access to Food - 2. A fresh look at the roots of food insecurity / Craig Pearson - 3. Food security in the Great Lakes region: reconciling trade liberalisation with human security goals / Anagha Joshi - 4. Right to food, sustainable development and trade: all faces of the same cube?/ Elisabeth Burgi Bonnomi - PART III Sustainability and Food Security - 5. Crop disease, management and food security / Rebecca Ford - 6. The contribution of plant genetic resources to food security / Bert Visser and Niels Louwaars - 7. Water and food security -- PART IV Food, Trade and Investment / Colin Charters - 8.The WTO and food security: what's wrong with the rules?/ Christian Haberli - 9.The financialisation of agricultural commodity futures trading: the 2006-08 global food crisis / Nicola Colbran - 10. Food security, sustainability and trade distortions: fisheries subsidies and the WTO / Margeret Young - 11. 'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law: legal frameworks regulating the global land rush / Lorenza Coyula - PART V Food Governance 12. Global food security governance: the Committee on World Food Security, Comprehensive Framework for Action and the G8/G20 / MatiasMargulis - 13. Regional initiatives on food security / Md Saidul and Iris Carla De Jesus - 14. Food security in the era of retail governance / Doris Fuchs…[et. al].

Summary from British Library Catalogue: "This timely study addresses the pressing issue of food security through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, providing both scholarly and policy-making perspectives. It sets the discussion on food security within the little-studied context of its international legal and regulatory framework. The expert contributors explore the key issues from a development perspective and through the lens of existing governance and policy systems with a view to articulating how these systems can be made more effective in dealing with the roots of food insecurity."