Main description:

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe. Each chapter is drawn from diverse cultural contexts and geographic areas, addressing local challenges of ongoing food and health system transformations. They illustrate forms of resistance, resilience, and adaptations of food systems to climate change.

Fourteen chapters present global case studies directly address the United Nation's sustainable development goals and the Food and Agriculture Organization's global call to action for transforming agriculture addressing food security and nutrition, and the health of populations impacted by climate change and public health issues.

This edited volume includes research on: 1) enhancing food sovereignty and food security for underserved populations, with a particular focus on indigenous peoples; 2) improving locally contextualized definitions and measurements of climate change resilience, food security, hunger, nutrition, and health; 3) informing public health programs and policies for population health and nutrition; and 4) facilitating public and policy discourse on sustainable futures for community health and nutrition in the face of climate change and natural disasters, including ongoing and future pandemics or emergencies.

Within this book, readers discover an array of approaches by authors that exemplify the mutually-engaged and reciprocal partnerships that are community-driven and support the positive transformation of the people with whom they work. By doing so, this book informs and drives a global sustainable future of scholarship and policy that is tied to the intersectionality and synergisms of climate change resilience, food security, food sovereignty, nutrition, and community health.

Contents:

Introduction - The Call to Action for Nutrition-focused Transformations of Global Food Systems. Climate Change Resilience for Food Security, Nutrition, and Health in Thailand. Kinship and Community for Sustainable Nutrition Interventions: A Case Study Example from Vanuatu. Empowerment to Promote Resilience against Food Insecurity and Negative Health Outcomes among Women and Girls in Rural Haiti. Afforestation for Charcoal Production in Haiti: A Climate Resilience Strategy? Food Security and the Viability of Yucatec Maya Sustainable Traditional Subsistence Strategies. Participatory Processes in Climate Change Resilience and Food Security Programming in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala. Constraints and Transitions from Fishing to Family Poultry Systems in Guatemala. Social Representation of the Risk in the Coast of Oaxaca: Agrochemicals, Health, And Environment. Food Insecurity in a Rapidly Warming Arctic. "How Decolonized Are We?" The Colonial Legacy of Commodity Foods and Food Insecurity among Native Americans. The Nexus of Hopi Food Security, Nutrition, and Health: Indigenous Food Systems Resilience to Climate Change Conclusions. Future Implications and Recommendations.