Private sector adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the food system: food security implications for South Africa and Brazil

Thesis

Achieving food security under climate change is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. The challenge becomes even greater when contextualised within our current limited understanding of how the food system functions as a complex, adaptive socio-ecological system, with food security as one of its outcomes. Adding climate change into this already complex and uncertain mix creates a ‘wicked problem’ that must be solved through the development of adaptive food governance. The thesi...

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Authors: Pereira, L; Laura Pereira

• Publication date: 2012
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: socio-ecological systems; Brazil; governance; adaptive capacity; South Africa; global environmental change; food security; food systems
• Subjects: International and macro-economic development; Human development; Latin America; Governance in Africa; Africa; Climate systems and policy; Environmental change; Organisational behaviour; Environment; Globalisation; Governance and ethics