Climate Change and Food Security: Africa and the Caribbean (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367256150 ISBN 13: 9780367256159

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security – availability, accessibility, stability of supply and appropriate nourishment – as well as the entire food system – food production, marketing, processing, distribution and prices.

Climate Change and Food Security focuses on the challenge to food security posed by a changing climate. The book brings together many of the critical global concerns of climate change and food security through local cases based on empirical studies undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Focusing on risk reduction and the complex nature of vulnerability to climate change, the book includes chapters on the responsiveness of farmers based on traditional knowledge, as well as the critical phenomenon of food insecurity in the urban setting. Other chapters are devoted to efforts made to strengthen resilience through long-term development, with interventions at the regional and national levels of scale. It also examines cross-cutting themes that underlie the strategies employed to achieve food security, including equity, gender, livelihoods and governance.

This edited volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, food security, environmental management and sustainable development.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Thomas-Hope is Professor Emerita at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where she was formerly the first holder of the James Seivright Moss-Solomon (Snr.) Chair of Environmental Management, Director of the Centre for Environmental Management, and Head of the Department of Geography and Geology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367256150
• ISBN 13: 9780367256159
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Thomas Hope Elizabeth