Climate change and food security : Africa and the Caribbean / edited by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomas-Hope, Elizabeth M., editor, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in climate change research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Food security.

Food security--Caribbean Area.

Food industry and trade--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Food industry and trade.

Food industry and trade--Caribbean Area.

Climatic changes--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xv, 221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

Preface / Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Introduction: The interface of climate change and food security / Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Part I: Trends in climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean

Trends in climate change in Africa / Walter Leal Filho, Isaac Kow Tetteh, Haruna Moda Musa

Climate change and the Caribbean: trends and implications / Michael A. Taylor, Jhordanne J. Jones and Tannecia S. Stephenson

Part II: Rural livelihoods and adaptive responses to climate change

Assessing the vulnerability of Caribbean farmers to climate change impacts: a comparative study of cocoa farmers in Jamaica and Trinidad / Kevon Rhiney, Anton Eitzinger, Aidan Farrell, Michael Taylor

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 / Anne-Teresa Birthwright

Climate change adaptations by smallholder farmers in northern Nigeria to enhance food security / Adamu Idris Tanko

Small-holder adaptations to climate change: dynamics, constraints and priorities of coastal Guyana / Linda Johnson-Bhola

Perceptions of changing climatic conditions in rural Kano, Nigeria: effects on harvests and farmers' adaptive coping strategies / Halima Abdulkadir Idris

Perceptions and attitudes towards climate change: strategies for food security among female farmers in rural Jamaica / Ayesha Constable

Flirting with food security: resilience in the face of conflict, climate change and communicable diseases in rural Sierra Leone / Jerram Bateman, Tony Binns, Etienne Nel

Part III: Urban food systems and governance in the context of climate change

Climate change, food and the city: agency and urban scale food system networks / Gareth Haysom

Urban food deserts in Cape Town: food security, food access and climate change / Mary Caesar, Jonathan Crush

Food insecurity in the context of climate change in Maputo City, Mozambique: challenges and coping strategies / Inês M. Raimundo

Part IV: Strengthening resilience for enhancing food security in the context of climate change

Global biomass rush: land grabbing, food security and socio-political stability of Sub-Saharan Africa / Akunne Okoli

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) as a climate change adaptation strategy in Burkina Faso and Mali / Kennedy Muthee, Cheikh Mbow, Geoffrey Macharia, Walter Leal Filho

Micro-insurance in disaster risk reduction: a strategy for enhancing domestic food security in CARICOM countries / Balfour Spence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138204270

1138204277

OCLC:

952943094