'Agriculture, Food Security and Inclusive Growth'

New SID/ISS publication edited by Max Spoor and Martha Jane Robbins

About the publication

This volume presents the edited texts of the 2011 Public Lecture Series jointly organized by the Society for International Development and the International Institute of Social Studies, in which various key figures in the field of agriculture, food and environment presented state-of-the art interventions:

• Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food;
• Camilla Toulmin, Executive Director of the International Institute of Environment and Development;
• Kevin Cleaver, Associate Vice-President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development; 
• Edward Heinemann, the Lead Author of the 2011 Rural Poverty Report; and
• Andries du Toit, Director of the Institute for Policy, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa. 

Also the fascinating and critical discussants' contributions are included, namely those by Frances Moore Lappe, Philip Woodhouse, Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, and Frits van der Wal.

The contributors address 'hot' topics such as food security, land grabbing, rural poverty, the fate of the peasantry, and the quality of growth.

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About the editors

The editors of the volume are

Max Spoor, Professor of Development Studies at ISS, and

Martha Jane Robbins, MA Student at ISS (Specialization Agriculture and Rural Development).