Food Security in Small Island States

1. Front Matter

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2. Food Security and Sovereignty in Small Island Developing States: Contemporary Crises and Challenges

   • John Connell, Kristen Lowitt, Arlette Saint Ville, Gordon M. Hickey

   Pages 1-23

3. Climate Change and Food Security in the Pacific Islands

   • Jon Barnett

   Pages 25-38

4. Development, Global Change and Food Security in Pacific Island Countries

   • John R. Campbell

   Pages 39-56

5. Lost Roots? Fading Food Security in Micronesia

   • John Connell

   Pages 57-76

6. Modernisation, Traditional Food Resource Management and Food Security on Eauripik Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia

   • Andrew Scourse, Corinne Wilkins

   Pages 77-89

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

   • Matthew G. Allen

   Pages 91-110

8. Postharvest Loss in Fruit and Vegetable Markets in Samoa

   • Steven J. R. Underhill, Shukrullah Sherzad, Yuchan Zhou, Seeseei Molimau-Samasoni, Semua Militini Tagoai

   Pages 111-131

9. Can the Tropical Western and Central Pacific Tuna Purse Seine Fishery Contribute to Pacific Island Population Food Security?

   • Graham M. Pilling, Shelton J. Harley, Simon Nicol, Peter Williams, John Hampton

   Pages 133-156

10. Addressing Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Caribbean Through Domestic Smallholder Farming System Innovation

    • Arlette Saint Ville, Leroy E. Phillip, Gordon M. Hickey

    Pages 157-178

11. Knowledge, Markets and Finance: Factors Affecting the Innovation Potential of Smallholder Farmers in the Caribbean Community

    • Kristen Lowitt, Gordon M. Hickey, Arlette Saint Ville, Kaywana Raeburn, Theresa Thompson-Colón, Sonia Laszlo et al.

    Pages 179-197

12. Fisheries Governance and Food Security in the Eastern Caribbean

    • Patrick McConney, Shelly-Ann Cox, Kemraj Parsram

    Pages 199-218

13. Food Security and Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Change in Trinidad and Tobago

    • Kalim U. Shah, Hari Bansha Dulal, Mohammed T. Awojobi

    Pages 219-237

14. The Role of Social Capital in Influencing Knowledge Flows and Innovation in St. Lucia

    • Arlette Saint Ville, Gordon M. Hickey, Uli Locher, Leroy E. Phillip

    Pages 239-260

15. Eating Meat or Eating Money? Factors Influencing Animal-Source Food Consumption in Timor-Leste

    • Johanna T. Wong, Brigitte Bagnol, Heather Grieve, Joanita Bendita da Costa Jong, Mu Li, Robyn G. Alders

    Pages 261-287

16. Wild Foods and Food Security: The Case of Timor-Leste

    • William Erskine, Anita Ximenes, Diana Glazebrook, Marcelino da Costa, Modesto Lopes, Luc Spyckerelle et al.

    Pages 289-307

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.


Givenits 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. 

• Food Security in Small Island States
• Climate Change and Food Security
• Development in Small Island States
• Food and Nutrition
• Food Policy and Islands
• Agricultural Development in Islands
• Social Change and Food Policies
• Fisheries Development in Islands
• Island Modernity
• Agricultural and fisheries strategies
• Food production and food security
• Food resource management
• Food and nutrition insecurity in the Caribbean
• Nutritional diversity and adequacy
• Sustainable small island food systems
• area studies
• climate change

• University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  John Connell

• Brandon University, Brandon, Canada

  Kristen Lowitt

John Connell is Professor of Human Geography in the University of Sydney, New South Wales.  He has a PhD from University College London, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia and of the NSW Geographical Society. He was previously a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and in the Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He has been a consultant to the International Labour Organisation, the World Health Organisation, the South Pacific Commission, SPREP, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Organisation of Migration. His research focuses on development in small island states, including those in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, centered on migration and remittances, rural development and coral atolls. 

Kristen Lowitt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Brandon University. Her research utilizes participatory and community-based approaches to understand the relationships between food security, natural resource management, and communities in rural and coastal contexts. She has undertaken research in the Global North and South. She is also a previous Fellow on the Council on the Future of Food Security and Agriculture, World Economic Forum. 

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