"Figures and tables" [2012] ELECD 1043; in Rayfuse, Rosemary; Weisfelt, Nicole (eds), "The Challenge of Food Security" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) vii

Book Title: The Challenge of Food Security

Editor(s): Rayfuse, Rosemary; Weisfelt, Nicole

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857939371

Section Title: Figures and tables

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Figures and tables
FIGURES
2.1 Local variation in food security in East Africa 21
2.2 Harvest and other losses that contribute to food insecurity 24
2.3 Food represented as two coupled, leaky systems 30
2.4 Thirteen major foci within the food system that contribute to food
insecurity 33
5.1 The disease quadrangle: host, pathogen and environmental
parameters contributing to disease expression 101
9.1 Index of estimated net long positions of index traders and IMF
food price index (January 2006­May 2009) 182


TABLES
2.1 Actual and projected global grain production, consumption and
stocks 1961­2050 22
2.2 Efficiency of conversion of various farm inputs into grain, as
illustrated by tropical wet rice and temperate rain-fed wheat
production 35
2.3 Leaky points in the food system, and actions that could be taken
to improve them 37
12.1 Selected international institutions relevant to food security 234




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