Food Security

Changing Structure of the World Food System

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Date: October 11, 2011
Author(s): Peter Goldsmith
Affiliation: Food and Agribusiness Management Program (FAM)
Keywords: Food Security
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
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Food Security

Dr. Alex Winter-Nelson, Professor of Agriculture and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, discusses the source of the problem of world hunger (poverty), if extreme poverty can be reduced or eliminated and how and what effect globalization has had.

For more Center for Global Studies resources on this topic, see the Sustainable Development Research Cluster.

Faculty: 
Alex Winter-Nelson
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Sustainable Development

Global Food Security Challenges Forum: Food and Fuel Coexistence in the Biofuels Era

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/cgs/cgs-v-2010-3/CGS-V-2010-3_panel_2&player=SDNC
Date: April 23, 2010
Speaker(s): Hayri Önal, Jody Endres
Organization: University of Illinois
Keywords: Agriculture; Food Security
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Series: Global Food Security Challenges Forum
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Global Food Security Challenges Forum: Defining the Issues

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/cgs/cgs-v-2010-3/CGS-V-2010-3_panel_1&player=SDNC
Date: April 23, 2010
Speaker(s): Timothy Beatty, Mariana Chilton
Organization: University of York, Drexel University
Keywords: Agriculture; Food Security
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Series: Global Food Security Challenges Forum
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The Growing Global Food Crisis

Web Address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO1ayht-65Y&feature=gv&hl=en
Date: July 1, 2008
Speaker(s): Gale Summerfield
Organization: Human and Community Development
Keywords: Food Security
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: Flash
Running Time: 31 minutes
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The Emergence of the Biofuels Sector and the Food vs. Fuel Trade-off Debate

Download Link: http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/11804/tokgoz_2009_biofuels_food.pdf?sequence=2
Date: March 5, 2009
Author(s): Simla Tokgöz
Affiliation: Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Iowa State University
Keywords: 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Biofuels; Food Security
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
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