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Titolo: |
Climate change and food security : Africa and the Caribbean / / edited by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 338.1967 |
Soggetto topico: | Food security - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Food security - Caribbean Area | |
Food industry and trade - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
Food industry and trade - Caribbean Area | |
Climatic changes - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
Climatic changes - Social aspects - Caribbean Area | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
Thomas-HopeElizabeth M
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Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Climate change and food security ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-315-46973-1 |
1-315-46971-5 | |
1-315-46972-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910155122303321 |
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