Advances in Food Security and Sustainability

Marc J. Cohen is Senior Researcher at Oxfam America, currently working on aid effectiveness and agricultural development policy. He is part of the Aid and Development Finance Issues Team of Oxfam International's Even it Up Campaign. Previously, he focused on humanitarian policy and climate change, as well as evaluations of humanitarian advocacy. His academic training is in political science and development studies, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Oxfam, Marc was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 1998-2008, and his long term research focus is global food security. Marc has carried out field research in Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, and the USA. He has taught at American, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins Universities, as well as at the Universities of Florence and Oslo.

• PrefaceMarc J. Cohen1. How Energy Innovation in Indoor Vertical Farming can Improve Food Security, Sustainability, and Food Safety?Dafni Despoina Avgoustaki and George Xydis2. Gender Inequality and Food Insecurity: A dozen years after the global food price crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hungerHélène Botreau and Marc J. Cohen3. The nature and extent of global volatility of public agricultural R&D expenditure 1981−2014Stuti Rawat4. Nigeria: Impacts of COVID 19 on Production, Poverty and Food SystemsKwaw Andam, Hyacinth Edeh, Victor Oboh, Karl Pauw and James Thurlow

"This volume investigates the many environmental hurdles that stand before food security and provides perspective on how these challenges need to be understood before we can solve them.... The book comprises ten chapters dealing with different environmental challenges.... [It] would be a valuable reference and textbook in food and nutrition security courses, as well as for policy makers and scientists working in this field." — Professor Gunnar Sigge (Stellenbosch University), FST Magazine, April 2023