Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume 5

Preface

1. How Energy Innovation in Indoor Vertical Farming can Improve Food Security, Sustainability, and Food Safety?

Dafni Despoina Avgoustaki and George Xydis2. Gender Inequality and Food Insecurity: A dozen years after the global food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hunger

Hélène Botreau and Marc J. Cohen3. The nature and extent of global volatility of public agricultural R&D expenditure 1981−2014

4. Nigeria: Impacts of COVID 19 on Production, Poverty and Food Systems

Kwaw Andam, Hyacinth Edeh, Victor Oboh, Karl Pauw and James Thurlow

Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Five, takes a scientific look at the challenges, constraints and solutions necessary to maintain a healthy and accessible food supply in different communities. This ongoing series addresses a wide range of issues on food sustainability and security, exploring challenges related to protecting environmental resources while also meeting human nutritional requirements.

• Contains expertise from leading contributors on the topics
• Covers a vast array of subjects relating to food security and sustainability
• Explores challenges related to protecting environmental resources while also meeting human nutritional requirements

Researchers in life sciences and social sciences as well as policymakers, food industry professionals, advisers, and more