People-Land Relationships on the Path to Sustainable Food Security
Malcolm D. Childress, Pranab Choudhury, Jolyne Sanjak
Abstract
Abstract Land tenure security is one driver of success in sustainable agriculture for food security. Here, we review the global rhetoric and evidence trends and map the evidence against both Sustainable Development Goal 2 and the World Food Program definition of Food Security. We recognize how conflict, impacts of climate change, and large-scale land-based investments interact over time with local land tenure, resulting in consequences for sustainable agriculture and food security. We look more closely at these interlinked challenges in South Asia, which has the highest concentration of extreme poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and focusing in particular on India to highlight emergent lessons from a program that supports small farmers in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal in the context of climate change.