Regional cooperation for sustainable food security in South Asia / edited by Nagesh Kumar and Joseph George.
This volume foregrounds the importance of regional cooperation in the context of food security challenges in South Asia. South Asia holds the key to global achievement of SDG targets of ending hunger and malnutrition - it accounts for nearly one-third of food-insecure people on the planet, with ever...
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Routledge India,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Regional cooperation for sustainable food security in South Asia: an overview and policy lessons Nagesh Kumar and Joseph George PART I Regional perspectives on food security 2 Realizing sustainable food security in South Asia: progress, challenges and opportunities Upali Wickramasinghe 3 Potential for intraregional trade in food products in South Asia Indra Nath Mukherji 4 Agricultural trade in South Asia: issues, challenges and the way forward Sachin Chaturvedi 5 SAARC Food Bank: raising operational efficacy Mustafizur Rahman, Estiaque Bari and Sherajum Monira Farin PART II National food security strategies: leveraging regional cooperation 6 Ensuring food security in Bangladesh: issues beyond production and challenges ahead Mustafizur Rahman and Towfiqul Islam Khan 7 India's national food security strategies and potential for regional cooperation S. Mahendra Dev 8 State of food security in Nepal: addressing concerns of productivity and climate change Posh Raj Pandey 9 National food security challenges and strategies in Pakistan: cooperation for technology and trade Abid Qaiyum Suleri and Mehreen Iqbal 10 Food security policy framework in Sri Lanka: market reforms, diversifi cation and safety nets Saman Kelegama and Dilani Hirimuthugodage.