Dangerous climate change in the Pacific Islands: food production and food security

@article{Barnett2011DangerousCC,  title={Dangerous climate change in the Pacific Islands: food production and food security},  author={Jon Barnett},  journal={Regional Environmental Change},  year={2011},  volume={11},  pages={229-237},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:155030232}}
  • J. Barnett
  • Published1 March 2011
  • Environmental Science, Economics
  • Regional Environmental Change
This paper explores the risks that climate change poses to food security in the islands of the South Pacific. It shows that climate change will adversely affect food systems in the region, including the supply of food from agriculture and fisheries, the ability of countries to import food, systems for the distribution of food, and the ability of households to purchase and utilize food. In these ways, climate change puts at risk the very basic and universal need for people in the islands to have… 

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