Title Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities

Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages) Contents Front Cover; Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Understanding the terrain: the climate change, assets and food security nexus in Southern African cities: Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser and Gina Ziervogel; 2. Urban food security and climate change: a system of flows: Jane Battersby; 3. Urban household vulnerability to food security and climate change: experiences from urban areas of Zimbabwe: Godfrey Tawodzera 4. Mobility and migration: the missing link in climate change and asset adaptation: Belinda Dodson5. Impacts of climate change on migration and food security in Maputo, Mozambique: Inês Raimundo and Bruce Frayne; 6. Asset adaptation and urban food security in a changing climate: a case study of Kalingalinga and Linda Compounds in Lusaka, Zambia: Danny Simatele; 7. The Ithemba farmers' story of climate and food security adaptation in Cape Town, South Africa: housing versus food?: Gareth Haysom 8. Climate change and food insecurity in Mombasa: institutional and policy gaps: Alfred Omenya, Grace Lubaale and Collins Miruka9. A spatial planning perspective on climate change, asset adaptation and food security: the case of two South African cities: Willemien Faling; 10. Constructing the climate change-asset adaptation-food security nexus for pro-poor urban development: Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser and Gina Ziervogel; Index Summary There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might impact on asset accumulation and food security for the urban poor. It demonstrates how these three, often separate foci, can be brought together to frame a holistic urban adaptation approach. Furthermore, although much has been written about climate change, limited evidence exists in southern Afr Notes Print version record Subject Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Africa, Southern Food security -- Africa, Southern Poverty -- Africa, Southern Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- Africa, Southern Climatic changes -- Social aspects Ecology Food security Poverty Urbanization -- Environmental aspects SUBJECT Africa, Southern -- Environmental conditions Subject Southern Africa Form Electronic book Author Moser, Caroline Ziervogel, Gina ISBN 9780203144084 0203144082

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