Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: The Basis for Food Security -- 1.1 Defining What Food Security Is and How Food Supply Chains Can Deliver It -- 1.2 The Convergence of Food Security Research, Economics, and Policy -- 1.3 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- 1.4 Measuring Hunger in a Changing World to Establish Security -- 1.5 The Undernutrition and Overnutrition Gap -- 1.6 The Supply Chain and Nutrition Gaps -- 1.7 The Relationship between Food Security and Biology -- 1.8 The Relationship between Food Security and Biotechnology -- 1.9 Genetic Diversity of Agricultural Crops and Livestock -- 1.10 Trade Agreements and the Development of Agricultural Supply -- References -- 2: Understanding Food Supply Chains -- 2.1 Current Methods of Assessing Food Supply Chain Efficiencies That Enable Food Security Projections -- 2.2 How Population Growth and Limiting Factors Define Demand and Food Security -- 2.3 Global Population Estimates and Projections -- 2.4 Consumption and Population Growth: Demonstrating the Impact of Dietary Changes and Transitions -- 2.5 Optimising Nutrition across Supply Chains Is the Focus of the Second Green Revolution -- 2.6 The Emergence of Sustainable Farming Reconnecting Supply Chains: A Case Study of the Establishment of the Landcare Movement in Australia -- 2.7 The Long-Term Field Experiments at Rothamsted and Their Power of Demonstrating Good Nutrient Balance in Agriculture Has Been Crucial to the Development of Sustainable Food Supply -- 2.8 Long-Term Field Experiments Hold Critical Data That Provide Our Understanding of Nutrient Flows in Farming Systems So That Sustainable Food Supply Chains Are Developed -- 2.9 The Sustainable Production of Livestock and Long-Term Data.

2.10 The Historical Proof of the Value of Agricultural Innovations in Providing Food Security -- 2.11 The Relationship between Field Trials, Investments, and Innovation -- References -- 3: The Scientific Basis for Food Security -- 3.1 The Supply of Essential Plant Nutrients -- 3.2 Plant Nutrients and Phytonutrients in the Food Supply Chain: Establishing a Nutritional Understanding Using Human Trials -- 3.3 Biomass, the Base of the Supply Chain -- 3.4 The Interception of Light by Crop Canopies: How the Molecular Scale Impacts on Food Supply Chain Efficiency -- 3.5 The Requirement for Breeding New Crop Varieties and Selecting for Increased Sink Capacity of Crops -- 3.6 Photosynthetic Metabolism, the Biochemical Driver of Production -- 3.7 Environmental Stress Events and Their Impacts on Food Supply -- 3.8 The Principles of Integrated Management across the Food Chain: A Food Supply Chain Perspective -- 3.9 The Modern Agricultural System, the Dietary Interface, and Food Supply -- References -- 4: The Sociological Basis for Food Security -- 4.1 Challenges and Solutions -- 4.2 Free Trade Transitions into Sustainability -- 4.3 Increasing Food Supplies Have Been a Major Achievement since 1975, but There Is Increased Resource Nationalism Evident by the Emergence of 'National Interests in a Shrinking World' -- 4.4 A Demonstration of Energy Balance and LCA for Sugar Production in Europe -- 4.5 Carbon Footprinting for Food Manufacturers Begins to Offer a Sustainability Reporting Framework -- 4.6 What Can We Do with Sustainability Assessments of Food Products? Using Carbon Footprint Data in Supply Chain Management -- 4.7 The Interactions between Affordability, Accessibility, and Food Security -- 4.8 Retail, Distribution, and Wholesale -- 4.9 Developing Diets for Improved Sustainability and Health Criteria -- References -- 5: Challenges and Solutions.

5.1 The Food System Challenge of This Century: Is a Sustainable Diet Now Defined? -- 5.2 Supply Chain Challenges: Integrating the LCA Approaches in Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Retail -- 5.3 Visualising the Data from the Food System Using GIS-LCA -- 5.4 Technology Enablers and Opportunities -- References -- 6: The Future and Our Conclusion -- 6.1 The Future Food System -- 6.2 Our Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Advert -- Supplemental Images -- EULA.