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2. Climate Change and Food (In)Security Nexus

Authors : Md Saidul Islam, Edson Kieu

Published in: Climate Change and Food Security in Asia Pacific

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The issue of climate change has been gaining widespread attention and concern as it has the ability to directly/indirectly affect our standard of living and quality of life. It has often been postulated that changes in climate would have a vast effect on food production systems and that food security might be threatened due to increasing climate change. However, it seems that research on climate change and food (in)security has often been one-sided; with climate change being identified as the cause of food insecurity and not how the systems in place to ensure food security have exacerbated the issue of climate change. This chapter thus seeks to give a more balanced view and thus understanding of the complex relationship between climate change and food security by critically examining both systems.

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Title: Climate Change and Food (In)Security Nexus
Authors: Md Saidul Islam
Edson Kieu
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Climate Change and Food Security in Asia Pacific
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-70752-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-70753-8

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70753-8_2