Details for Food security in drylands

Although most people can agree on the importance of food security, there are many, often widely divergent, ideas on the kind of political and technological interventions that are needed to achieve global food security. Research findings from different agroecological zones warn us about the danger of making generalisations about the sorts of challenges (or “scenarios”) we are likely to face in future; rather, the latest research emphasises the need to adapt interventions to local ecological, social and political circumstances.

Author: Karen Witsenburg, Both ENDS Amsterdam, 2012