Full title:
A people-centred perspective on climate change and food insecurity: hungry and vulnerable in rural India
Bill Pritchard is Associate Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. This lecture was part of the 'Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Justice Symposium' hosted by the Sydney Network on Climate Change and Society at the University of Sydney in August 2012.
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Summary:
A number of recent publications have documented the significant climate change vulnerability of food security systems in rural India. This vulnerability derives on account of the connections between changes to biophysical systems, livelihood dependence on those systems, and limited adaptive capacities amongst many rural Indians. This presentation will examine these interdependencies from a people-centred perspective. It makes the point that the climate change-food insecurity nexus has its clearest expression when understood in terms of the livelihood dilemmas and vulnerabilities of the poor.
