McCubbin, SG, Pearce, T, Ford, JD orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-3456 et al. (1 more author) (2017) Social-ecological change and implications for food security in Funafuti, Tuvalu. Ecology and Society, 22 (1). 53. ISSN 1708-3087
Abstract
This article examines food security in Funafuti, Tuvalu in the context of recent social–ecological changes. We consider both social and ecological processes in order to provide a holistic account of food security. An analysis of data collected through a fixed-question survey and freelists with 50 households and semistructured interviews with 25 key informants reveal that access to food of sufficient nutritional and cultural value is the primary driver affecting food security, more so than general food availability. Ten percent of the households surveyed experienced a shortage of food in the previous month, and 52% ate less desirable imported foods, which tended to be nutrient poor because they could not access preferred local foods. Factors and processes affecting access to local foods include: availability of and access to land; declining involvement in local food production; the convenience of imported foods; unreliable interisland shipping; and climate and environmental changes that have negatively affected food security and are expected to continue to do so.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2017 by the author(s). Published in Ecology & Society under license by the Resilience Alliance. This article is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/]. You may share and adapt the work for noncommercial purposes provided the original author and source are credited, you indicate whether any changes were made, and you include a link to the license. |
Keywords: | climate change; food security; imported foods; local foods; Pacific Islands |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2019 11:45 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2019 11:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Resilience Alliance |
Identification Number: | 10.5751/ES-09129-220153 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141008 |