Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – Food Security: Some Inconvenient Questions (pp. 1-12)
Richard E. White (Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA)

Chapter 2 – Sustainable Food Production and Dairy Herd Health: A Key Role for the Veterinary Surgeon (pp. 13-38)
Jonathan Statham, Martin Green, James Husband, Jonathan Huxley and Sian Statham (Bishopton Veterinary Group/RAFT Solutions Ltd, UK, and others)

Chapter 3 – Using Landsat Images to Detect Land Cover Change and Associated Impact on Food Security in the Neighborhood of Surface Coal Mines (pp. 39-52)
Lubos Matejicek (Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Natural Science, Benatska, Prague, Czech Republic)

Chapter 4 – The Contribution of Non-Wood Forest Products to Food Security: An Overview from Some African and European Countries (pp. 53-72)
Dele Raheem, Christian Kuhlgatz, Geraldine A. Rasheli and Kirsi Jokela (Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, and others)

Chapter 5 – Biofuels and Food Security in Developing Countries (pp. 73-92)
Tatsuji Koizumi (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO))

Chapter 6 – A Spatial Typology of Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 93-124)
Zhe Guo and Bingxin Yu (International Food Policy Research Institute)

Chapter 7 – Towards Building a Sustainable Food System in Sub-Saharan Africa: Meeting the Emerging Challenges for Food and Nutrition Security (pp. 125-142)
Bishwajit Ghose, Sajeeb Sarker and Sharmistha Ghosh (School of Social Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China, and others)

Chapter 8 – Climate Change and Biofuel Production: Implications for Agricultural Land Use and Food Security in African Countries (pp. 143-160)
Richard J. Culas and Umar M. Mustapha (School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW, Australia)

Index