Climate change and food security : Africa and the Caribbean /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in climate change research.
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Table of 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.