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

• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in climate change research.