Climate Change and Food Security (eBook, ePUB)

Africa and the Caribbean
Redaktion: Thomas Hope, Elizabeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume focuses on the challenge to food security posed by a changing climate, with chapters exemplifying many of the critical issues through empirical studies undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Focussing on risk reduction and management, the book includes chapters on the responsiveness of farmers based on traditional knowledge; the monitoring of national food prices by governments; the use of satellite imaging to provide landscape information; and the development of innovative schemes for insuring against risk of hazards associated with climate change. It also examines a number of cross-cutting themes including equity, gender, livelihoods and governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315469713
• Artikelnr.: 47386344

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Interface of Climate Change and Food Security
PART I: Trends in Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean
1. Trends in Climate Change in Africa
2. Climate Change and the Caribbean: Trends and Implications
PART II: Rural Livelihoods and Adaptive Responses to Climate Change
3. Assessing the Vulnerability of Caribbean Farmers to Climate Change
Impacts: A Comparative Study of Cocoa Farmers in Jamaica and Trinidad
4. Liquid Gold or Poverty in a Cup? The Vulnerability of Blue Mountain and
High Mountain Coffee Farmers in Jamaica to the Effects of Climate Change
5. Climate Change Adaptations by Smallholder Farmers in Northern Nigeria to
Enhance Food Security
6. Small-Holder Adaptations to Climate Change: Dynamics, Constraints and
Priorities of Coastal Guyana
7. Perceptions of Changing Climatic Conditions in Rural Kano, Nigeria:
Effects on Harvests and Farmers' Adaptive Coping Strategies
8. Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Climate Change: Strategies for Food
Security Among Female Farmers in Rural Jamaica
9. Flirting with Food Security: Resilience in the Face of Conflict, Climate
Change and Communicable Diseases in Rural Sierra Leone
PART III: Urban Food Systems and Governance in the Context of Climate
Change
10. Climate Change, Food and the City: Agency and Urban Scale Food System
Networks
11. Urban Food Deserts in Cape Town: Food Security, Food Access and Climate
Change
12. Food Insecurity in the Context of Climate Change in Maputo City,
Mozambique: Challenges and Coping Strategies
PART IV: Strengthening Resilience for Enhancing Food Security in the
Context of Climate Change
13. Global Biomass Rush: Land Grabbing, Food Security and Socio-Political
Stability of Sub-Saharan Africa
14. Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) as a Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy in Burkina Faso and Mali
15. Micro-insurance in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Strategy for Enhancing
Domestic Food Security in CARICOM Countries