Healthy-food procurement: Using the public plate to reduce food insecurity and diet-related diseases
Food security remains a top development priority and global concern. It is enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Sustainable Development Goal two.
Rationale: Food insecurity has emerged as an important, and potentially modifiable, risk factor for depression.
Agricultural development is critical to the advancement of Goal 2 (zero hunger). This concluding chapter summarises the roles of entrepreneurship and value chain organization in agricultural development in Brazil.
Despite much policy attention to agricultural development in South Africa, efforts since democratisation have failed to raise smallholder engagement in agriculture and to break the trend of persistent
As the post-MDG era approaches in 2016, reducing child undernutrition is gaining high priority on the international development agenda, both as a maker and marker of development.
Scientists in the Netherlands are cultivating edible insects to address concerns of international food security.
Voluntary standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods.
A changing climate alters the living conditions for almost every species on earth.
This chapter supports Goal 2 (zero hunger) and Goal 17 (partnership for the goals) through its study of the role the private sector plays in agricultural development.
