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Food Security and Sovereignty in Small Island Developing States: Contemporary Crises and Challenges

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Food Security in Small Island States

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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are widely recognized as a special case for sustainable development due to the unique set of challenges and vulnerabilities they face. While SIDS are a diverse group of nations, most share such characteristics as limited land availability, insularity, susceptibility to natural disasters and deep integration into global markets that make them particularly vulnerable to global environmental and economic change processes. Such processes and changes are increasingly playing out in the realm of food security. In this chapter, an overview is given of the key social–ecological vulnerabilities driving SIDS food security in different contexts, including inherent problems of ecology and location; particular trajectories of development where modernity, migration and urbanization have distanced many people from agricultural systems; new structures of trade that have disadvantaged small states and contributed to shifts in nutritional patterns; governance; and the growing significance of climate change. The chapters that comprise this volume are outlined and drawn on to offer new directions for how policy and practice might better support more resilient SIDS food systems.

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  1. 1.

    In this book, we employ the concept of vulnerability as a “diagnostic tool to gauge the inherent limitations and dependencies of communities experiencing change”, while also recognizing that vulnerability is a power-laden concept, with potentially significant implications for the populations being labelled as vulnerable (Haalboom and Natcher 2012).

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    MIRAB is an acronym for migration (MI), remittance (R) and foreign aid (A) and the public bureaucracy (B).

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