Overview
- Offers the first significant and substantial overview of food security issues in island states
- Includes detailed case studies prepared by experts on contemporary themes
- Compares and contrasts key issues and diverse regions
- Examines a wide range of approaches from economics to agronomy
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Security in Small Island States
Editors: John Connell, Kristen Lowitt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8256-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8255-0Published: 15 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8258-1Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8256-7Published: 25 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 307
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Area Studies, Development Studies, International Security Studies, Climate Change, Public Health