Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and
imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and …

Highlights•The expansion of transnational land acquisitions raises sustainability
concerns.•Land and water grabbing represent a critical challenge to sustainable …

Large-scale investments in farmland have been criticized, chiefly, because of questions
about the capacity of the countries targeted by these land deals to effectively manage these …

Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and
natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous …

Ecosystem services assessments have the potential to support negotiating the complex
trade-offs between conservation goals and other economic, political and social agendas …

Abstract The sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) have successfully raised awareness
and built momentum for taking collective action, while also remaining uncritical of the central …

Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they
are increasingly under threat from human activities. Large-scale land acquisitions have …

We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the" land rush" in the wake of the
2007–8 boom in agricultural commodity prices, and we study the determinants of foreign …

This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global
food governance. Today's food system generates hunger alongside of food waste …