Climate Change and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Literature Review
By H. Thompson, L. Berrang‐Ford, J. Ford. 2010
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In recent years it has become clear that climate change is an inevitable process. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the expectation is that climate change will have an especially negative impact, not only a result of projected warming and rainfall deficits, but also because of the vulnerability of the population. The impact upon food security will be of great significance, and may be defined as being composed of three components: availability, access, and utilization. To further investigate the link, a systematic literature review was done of the peer-reviewed literature related to climate change and food security, employing the realist review method. Analysis of the literature found consistent predictions of decreased crop productivity, land degradation, high market prices, negative impacts on livelihoods, and increased malnutrition. Adaptation strategies were heavily discussed as a means of mitigating a situation of severe food insecurity across the entire region. This is linked to issues of development, whereby adaptation is essential to counteract the negative impacts and improve the potential of the population to undergo development processes. Findings additionally revealed a gap in the literature about how nutrition will be affected, which is of importance given the links between poor nutrition and lack of productivity.
Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Effect of Climate Change on the Yield of Cereal Crops: A Review (2018, background): “Currently, climate change has a negative influence on food security as various predictions indicate a significant decrease in the productivity of different crops [84].”
- Barriers to climate change adaptation: evidence from northeast Ghana in the context of a systematic literature review (2015, methodology): “…searches of terms including [barrier*] AND [climat* adaptation] AND [Africa] were conducted in the electronic database Web of Science using methods described by Thompson, Berrang-Ford, and Ford (2010), Biesbroek, Klostermann, Termeer, and Kabat (2013) and Ford, Berrang-Ford, and Paterson (2011).”
- Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “There is often a ‘‘hungry season,’’ which occurs when food stores are inadequate to carry a household to the next harvest, and people are particularly dependent upon market purchases (Thompson et al. 2010).”