East Asia and Food (In)Security
This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation. It also looks at how the perception of food insecurity has increasingly influenced the nature of international interactions, not just within East Asia, but also in the regions relations with major external actors.
Many of the challenges facing East Asia are generic food security issues that face people and governments across the world for example, the implications of climate change and demographic changes on food supplies. This book places the East Asian context in the wider discussion of food (in)security in global politics. However, it also identifies potential regional differences for example, the significance of rice for the region, and the unavoidable impact of China as a major regional player. What the Chinese state, and Chinese companies, decide to do in response to concerns about food insecurity have an impact not just on the rest of the region, but on the rest of the world.
Taking too much of a Sinocentric focus, however, ignores other actors in East Asia, or merely relegates discussion to how they respond to Chinese policies or external strategies. This book considers the region as a whole, both when it comes to thinking about food security challenges and responses within the region itself, and also in the outward projection of regional food insecurity on the rest of the world.
This book was published as a special issue of The Pacific Review.
Shaun Breslin is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.
Christopher W. Hughes is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.
East Asia and Food (In)Security
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Shaun Breslin and Christopher W. Hughes
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Contents
Shaun Breslin and Christopher W. Hughes
Amy Freedman
Daojiong Zha and Hongzhou Zhang
J. Jackson Ewing
Helen E. S. Nesadurai
Nicholas Thomas
Franklyn Lisk
Ching-Cheng Chang, Huey-Lin Lee and Shih-Hsun Hsu
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1: Foreword
East Asia and food (in)security
Shaun Breslin and Christopher W. Hughes
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 431432
Chapter 2
Rice security in Southeast Asia: beggar thy neighbor or cooperation?
Amy Freedman
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 433454
Chapter 3
Food in Chinas international relations
Daojiong Zha and Hongzhou Zhang
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 455479
Chapter 4
Supermarkets, iron buffalos and agrarian myths: exploring the drivers and impediments to food systems modernisation in Southeast Asia
J. Jackson Ewing
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 481503
Chapter 5
Food security, the palm oilland conflict nexus, and sustainability: a governance role for a private multi-stakeholder regime like the RSPO?
Helen E.S. Nesadurai
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 505529
Chapter 6
Going out: Chinas food security from Southeast Asia
Nicholas Thomas
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 531562
Chapter 7
Land grabbing or harnessing of development potential in agriculture? East Asias land-based investments in Africa
Franklyn Lisk
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 563587
Chapter 8
Food security: global trends and regional perspective with reference to East Asia
Ching-Cheng Chang, Huey-Lin Lee and Shih-Hsun Hsu
The Pacific Review, volume 26, issue 5 (December 2013) pp. 589613
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Shaun Breslin is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.
Ching-Cheng Chang is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
J. Jackson Ewing is a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Environmental, Climate Change and Food Security Programme at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Amy Freedman is Professor and Department Chair of Political Science and International Studies at LIU Post, Brookville, NY, USA. She has published widely on questions of democracy in Southeast Asia, as well as on political economy in the region. Her most recent book is The Internationalization of Internal Conflicts (Routledge, 2013).
Shih-Hsun Hsu is a Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Christopher W. Hughes is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.
Huey-Lin Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Franklyn Lisk
