Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health, authored by Preety Gadhoke, presents a compelling collection of case studies on climate change resilience frameworks. These studies focus on nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and the health of underserved and marginalized communities worldwide.

Each chapter is set against 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, directly addressing the United Nations 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.

The book includes fourteen chapters that present global case studies, integrating reflections, insights, and experiences resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic. It covers research on enhancing food sovereignty and food security for underserved populations, with a particular focus on indigenous peoples; improving locally contextualized definitions and measurements of climate change resilience, food security, hunger, nutrition, and health; informing public health programs and policies for population health and nutrition; and 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 will discover an array of approaches by the 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.

Published by CRC Press on August 21, 2023, this book is available in English and can be identified by the ISBNs 9780367857622 and 9781000911169.