Food security in small island states / John Connell, Kristen Lowitt, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connell, John, 1946- editor.

Lowitt, Kristen, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Islands of the Pacific.

Food security.

Food supply--Islands of the Pacific.

Food supply.

Food security--West Indies.

Food supply--West Indies.

Food Supply.

Legislation, Food.

Agriculture.

Pacific Islands.

West Indies.

Medical Subjects:

Food Supply.

Legislation, Food.

Agriculture.

Pacific Islands.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

xi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature, [2020]

Summary:

This book provides a contemporary overview of the social-ecological and economic vulnerabilities that produce food and nutrition insecurity in various small island contexts, including both high islands and atolls, from the Pacific to the Caribbean. It examines the historical and contemporary circumstances that have accompanied the shift from subsistence production to the consumption of imported, processed foods and drinks, and the impact of this transition on nutrition and the rise of non-communicable diseases. It also assesses the challenges involved in reversing this trend, and how more effective social and economic policies, agricultural and fisheries strategies, and governance arrangements could promote more resilient and sustainable small island food systems. It offers both theoretical and practical perspectives, and brings together a broad range of policy areas, e.g. agriculture, food, commerce, health, planning and socio-economic policy. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for a range of disciplines in a number of regional contexts, and for the growing number of scholars and practitioners working on and in small island states. It will be of particular value as the first book to examine the diversity and commonalities of island states around the globe as they confront issues of food security.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Food security and sovereignty in small island developing states: Contemporary crises and challenges

Chapter 2. Climate change and food security in the Pacific Islands

Chapter 3. Development, global change and traditional food security in Pacific Island countries

Chapter 4. Lost Roots? Fading Food Security in Micronesia

Chapter 5. Modernisation, traditional food resource management and food security on Eauripik atoll, Federated States of Micronesia

Chapter 6. Framing Food Security in the Pacific Islands: Resilience in Malo, Vanuatu

Chapter 7. Postharvest loss in fruit and vegetable markets in Samoa

Chapter 8. Can the tropical Western and Central Pacific tuna purse seine fishery contribute to Pacific Island population food security?

Chapter 9. Addressing food and nutrition insecurity in the Caribbean through domestic smallholder farming system innovation

Chapter 10. Knowledge, markets, and finance: Factors affecting the innovation potential of smallholder farmers in the Caribbean Community

Chapter 11. Fisheries governance and food security in the Eastern Caribbean

Chapter 12. Food security and livelihood vulnerability to climate change in Trinidad and Tobago

Chapter 13. Exploring the role of social capital in influencing knowledge flows and innovation in St. Lucia

Chapter 14. Eating meat or eating money? Factors influencing animal-source food consumption in Timor-Leste

Chapter 15. The role of wild foods in food security: the example of Timor-Leste.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9811382557

9789811382550

OCLC:

1097254251