Climate Change and Food Insecurity: Toward a Sociology and Geography of Vulnerability

Global climate change presents a serious challenge to future livelihood strategies of third world peoples, especially for those social groups which are currently poor and vulnerable. Relatively modest adverse changes in community resource availability and/or economic output imply critical shifts in food security. Feasible strategies for coping with future climate change must be rooted in a full understanding of the complex structure and causes of presentday social vulnerability. In the case of global warming and its human implications, sophisticated models forecasting climate change and impacts, in our view, must begin with a compelling theory of contemporary vulnerability to hunger and famine.

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