Includes bibliographical references and index.

Food or consequences: food security and its implications for global sociopolitical stability / Christopher B. Barrett -- The future of the global food economy: scenarios for supply, demand, and prices / Mark W. Rosegrant, Simla Tokgoz, and Prapti Bhandary -- What do we know about the climate of the next decade? / Mark A. Cane and Dong Eun Lee -- The global land rush / Klaus Deininger -- Global freshwater and food security in the face of potential adversity / Upmanu Lall -- Managing marine resources for food and human security / Timothy R. McClanahan, Eddie H. Allison, and Joshua E. Cinner -- Crop technologies for the coming decade / Susan McCouch and Samuel Crowell -- Livestock futures to 2020: how will they shape food, environmental, health, and global security? / John McDermott, Dolapo Enahoro, and Mario Herrero -- Labor migration and food security in a changing climate / Robert McLeman -- Trade policies and global food security / Kym Anderson -- Food security and political stability: a humanitarian perspective / Daniel Maxwell -- Moral economies of food security and protest in Latin America / Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring -- Food security and sociopolitical stability in Sub-Saharan Africa / Christopher B. Barrett and Joanna B. Upton -- Lessons from the Arab Spring: food security and stability in the Middle East and North Africa / Travis J. Lybbert and Heather R. Morgan -- Food security and sociopolitical stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Johan Swinnen and Kristine Van Herck -- Food security and sociopolitical stability in South Asia / Arun Agrawal -- When China runs out of farmers / Luc Christiaensen -- Food security and sociopolitical stability in East and Southeast Asia / C. Peter Timmer.