Land and Food Policy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2016) | Viewed by 63771
Special Issue Editor
Interests: land and food policies; land governance; food security; agrarian change; resilient agriculture; sustainable livelihood; vulnerability
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Dear Colleagues,
Land-use change could potentially interrupt progress toward a world without hunger. A robust and coherent global pattern is discernible from the impacts of land use change on crop productivity, which could have consequences on food security. The sustainability of food systems may be at risk under land-use changes. Nevertheless, potential impacts are more controllable in areas where the rights to land are realized and secured. On the contrary, it is likely that land-use changes exacerbate food insecurity where the law is complicated, fickle, or outdated, and decision-making processes are not transparent and civil society is poor. Likewise, it can be anticipated that food security will directly and indirectly be affected by good or weak land governance.
This Special Issue invites papers that address land and food policies and other relevant aspects. All types of scientific contributions including empirical studies and critical reviews are welcome for publication.
Dr. Hossein Azadi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Land use policy
- Land use change
- Land governance
- Sustainable land use management
- Food policy
- Food security
- Sustainable food production systems
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