Unequal adaptation: socially differentiated responses to environmental change and food insecurity among smallholder farmers

Thesis

Achieving food security in a changing climate is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. For subsistence-oriented farming families who experience firsthand pressures on their food system – population growth, environmental degradation and climate change, to name only a few – adaptation has become an urgent necessity. The ability to ‘adapt and benefit’ through a suite of climate change adaptation interventions that build adaptive capacity is touted by many humanitarian and develo...

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Authors: Bailey, M

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-pmp9nyzxx
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: social differentiation; climate change adaptation; food insecurity; response spaces; smallholder farmer livelihoods; Ghana
• Subjects: Developmental studies; Human geography