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Chapter One: Advances in Food Security and Sustainability in South Africa
2. Advances in Policy Responses
2.1. Climate Change and Resource Scarcity
2.2. SmartAgri in the Western Cape
2.3. Health and Noncommunicable Diseases
2.4. Reducing Salt and Taxing Sugar
2.5. Competition in the Grocery Sector
2.6. City Governance and South African Cities Network Scenarios
3. Advances in Private Sector Responses
3.1. Conservation Agriculture
3.2. Retailer Initiative: ``Farming for the Future´´
3.3. Addressing Duality in the Agrarian Structure
4. Civil Society Advances
4.1. Slow Food Youth Network
4.2. Food Sovereignty Campaign
4.4. Addressing Food Waste
4.5. Supporting Small-Scale Fisheries
4.6. Supporting Fisheries Through Changing Consumer Behavior
5. Conclusions and Recommendations
5.1. Partnerships and Networks
5.2. Environmental Sustainability
5.3. Change in the Role of the Private Sector
Chapter Two: Analyzing the Adoption of Technology, Yield Gaps, and Profitability of Major Foodgrain Crops in West Bengal
2. Problem Statement and Methodology
2.1. Estimation of Yield Gaps
2.2. Determinants of Yield Gaps
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Level of Technology Adoption in Wheat
3.2. Level of Technology Adoption in Chickpea
3.3. Estimation of Yield Gaps in Kharif Rice
3.4. Estimation of Yield Gaps in Rabi Rice
3.5. Estimation of Yield Gaps in Wheat
3.6. Determinants of Yield Gap
3.7. Correlation Analysis
3.10. Cobb-Douglas Production Function
3.11. Determinants of Yield Gap in Wheat
3.12. Returns From Kharif Rice
3.13. Returns From Rabi Rice
Chapter Three: Potential of Public Purchases as Markets for Family Farming: An Analysis of Brazilian School Feeding Progr ...
2. Challenges of Connecting School Feeding and Family Farming: Notes From the International Debate and Brazilian Experience
3. Overview of Family Farming Participation in School Feeding in Brazil
4. The Participation of Family Farming in School Meals Supply: A Regional Reading
5. Participation of Family Farming According to the Volume of Funds Transferred by FNDE to Municipalities
Chapter Four: UK Horticulture Production and National Dietary Guidelines: Meeting the Gap
2. The Public Health Evidence
3. Current Dietary Guidance
3.1. Current Dietary Guidelines in the UK
3.2. Does the UK Meet Dietary Guidelines?
3.3. Reasons for the Consumption Gap
3.4. Evidence on Potential Impact of a Shift to Meet Dietary Guidelines
3.4.1. Land Use, Production, and Trade Impacts
3.4.2. Employment Impacts
3.4.4. Environmental Impact
4. UK Purchases, Production, and Trade in Fruit and Vegetables
4.2.1. Horticulture in the Regions
5. The Status of Horticulture Within the UK Agricultural Sector
5.1. Land Use for Horticulture in the UK
5.2. Land Use for Horticulture in the UK vs Land Use for Animal Feed
5.3. Labor Use for Horticulture in the UK
5.4. Skills in UK Horticulture
5.5. Money in the Horticultural Supply Chain
5.6. UK Policy Toward Horticulture
6. Questions Arising and Policy Options
7. Conclusions: Implications for Academics and Civil Society
Chapter Five: Governing in a Postpolitical Era: Civil Society Participation for Improved Food Security Governance
2. Governing in a Postpolitical Era
2.1. Three Characteristics of the Postpolitical
3. Participation is Political
4. The Case of the Reformed CFS
4.1. Structure and Outcomes of the Reformed CFS
4.2. Evolution of CSO Participation in the CFS
4.3. The Civil Society Mechanism
5. How Meaningful Participation Challenges the Postpolitical Condition
5.1. Technocratic Processes Over Political Processes
5.3. Embedded Neoliberalism
6.1. Replicating the CFS Model of Participation
6.2. CFS in the Era of the SDGs