Climate Change and Food Security in the Pacific Islands’

Abstract

Climate change poses diverse risks to the food security of individuals and communities in small Pacific Island states and offers a challenge to human rights. Climate change is likely to emphasize contemporary environmental trends and problems, ranging from land degradation, deforestation and the loss of biodiversity, to coastal erosion and the pollution of lagoons. Climate change will adversely affect food systems in the region, including the supply of food from both agriculture and fisheries, the ability of countries to import food through reduction in incomes and damage to infrastructure for food distribution, and the ability of households to purchase and utilize food. If tourism is also a..