Climate Change and Food Security

Elizabeth Thomas-Hope is Professor Emerita at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where she was formerly the first holder of the James Seivright Moss-Solomon (Snr.) Chair of Environmental Management, Director of the Centre for Environmental Management, and Head of the Department of Geography and Geology.

• Introduction: The Interface of Climate Change and Food Security PART I: Trends in Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean1. Trends in Climate Change in Africa 2. Climate Change and the Caribbean: Trends and Implications PART II: Rural Livelihoods and Adaptive Responses to Climate Change3. Assessing the Vulnerability of Caribbean Farmers to Climate Change Impacts: A Comparative Study of Cocoa Farmers in Jamaica and Trinidad 4. 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 5. Climate Change Adaptations by Smallholder Farmers in Northern Nigeria to Enhance Food Security 6. Small-Holder Adaptations to Climate Change: Dynamics, Constraints and Priorities of Coastal Guyana 7. Perceptions of Changing Climatic Conditions in Rural Kano, Nigeria: Effects on Harvests and Farmers’ Adaptive Coping Strategies 8. Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Climate Change: Strategies for Food Security Among Female Farmers in Rural Jamaica 9. Flirting with Food Security: Resilience in the Face of Conflict, Climate Change and Communicable Diseases in Rural Sierra Leone PART III: Urban Food Systems and Governance in the Context of Climate Change 10. Climate Change, Food and the City: Agency and Urban Scale Food System Networks 11. Urban Food Deserts in Cape Town: Food Security, Food Access and Climate Change 12. Food Insecurity in the Context of Climate Change in Maputo City, Mozambique: Challenges and Coping Strategies PART IV: Strengthening Resilience for Enhancing Food Security in the Context of Climate Change 13. Global Biomass Rush: Land Grabbing, Food Security and Socio-Political Stability of Sub-Saharan Africa 14. Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Burkina Faso and Mali 15. Micro-insurance in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Strategy for Enhancing Domestic Food Security in CARICOM Countries

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