Vulnerability to hunger in Africa: A climate change perspective
- 31 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Global Environmental Change
- Vol. 1 (5), 365-380
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0959-3780(91)90003-c
Abstract
Limitations of present assessments of climate change impacts on food supplies are addressed, and a new approach is proposed. This uses the concept of vulnerability to hunger as a point of departure. A typology of vulnerability indices is developed and several measures of vulnerability are explored using information from case studies reported in the literature and research coordinated by the author's research group. An initial synthesis of data about climate change and vulnerability to hunger is illustrated for Africa.Keywords
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