Climate change and food in/security : a critical nexus

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 securit...

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Main Authors: Md Saidul Islam, Wong, Andrea Ting
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107478
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49712
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments4020038
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary: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 paper 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.