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Food Security in Small Island States

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 circums...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Connell, John (Editor), Lowitt, Kristen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Subjects:
Public Health
Economic Development
Environment
International Security Studies
Development Studies
Environmental Sciences
Political Sociology
Security, International
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Food security and sovereignty in small island developing states: Contemporary crises and challenges
  • Chapter 2. Climate change and food security in the Pacific Islands
  • Chapter 3. Development, global change and traditional food security in Pacific Island countries
  • Chapter 4. Lost Roots? Fading Food Security in Micronesia
  • Chapter 5. Modernisation, traditional food resource management and food security on Eauripik atoll, Federated States of Micronesia
  • Chapter 6. Framing Food Security in the Pacific Islands: Resilience in Malo, Vanuatu
  • Chapter 7. Postharvest loss in fruit and vegetable markets in Samoa
  • Chapter 8. Can the tropical Western and Central Pacific tuna purse seine fishery contribute to Pacific Island population food security?
  • Chapter 9. Addressing food and nutrition insecurity in the Caribbean through domestic smallholder farming system innovation
  • Chapter 10. Knowledge, markets, and finance: Factors affecting the innovation potential of smallholder farmers in the Caribbean Community
  • Chapter 11. Fisheries governance and food security in the Eastern Caribbean
  • Chapter 12. Food security and livelihood vulnerability to climate change in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Chapter 13. Exploring the role of social capital in influencing knowledge flows and innovation in St. Lucia
  • Chapter 14. Eating meat or eating money? Factors influencing animal-source food consumption in Timor-Leste
  • Chapter 15. The role of wild foods in food security: the example of Timor-Leste

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