Climate change adaptation and inequality in Africa: Case of water, energy and food insecurity

Nyiwul, Linus

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123393

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“…Likewise, between nations, ecologically unequal exchanges have occurred due to resource plundering and pollution from the externalities of production [32,33]. A plethora of studies have extended beyond the inequalities of wealth to racial, class, and age inequalities to show both economic and environmental impacts [34][35][36][37][38].…”

Section: Impacts Of Climate Change: Strategies For Equitable Mitigation and Adaptationmentioning

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Sociological Perspectives on Climate Change and Society: A Review

Islam

Kieu

2021

Climate

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Society is at an important intersection in dealing with the challenges of climate change, and this paper is presented at a critical juncture in light of growing recognition that the natural sciences are insufficient to deal with these challenges. Critical aspects of sociological perspectives related to climate change research are brought together in this review in the hope of fostering greater interdisciplinary collaboration between the natural and social sciences. We fervently argue for the need to inculcate interdisciplinary approaches that can provide innovative perspectives and solutions to the challenges we face from the impacts of climate change. As such, some critical sociological perspectives are addressed, with two objectives: (a) to provide a foundational opening for readers seeking an introductory perspective and potential core contributions of sociological insights on climate change; and (b) to explore opportunities and obstacles that may occur with increased interdisciplinary cooperation and collaboration. We lay out fundamental ideas by assembling a loosely connected body of sociological research, hoping to develop and advance the collaborative research agenda between sociology and other disciplines for the near future.

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Section: Impacts Of Climate Change: Strategies For Equitable Mitigation and Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociological Perspectives on Climate Change and Society: A Review

Islam

Kieu

2021

Climate

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“…This has even become worse with the exacerbating effect of COVID‐19 on food security worldwide (Arndt et al, 2020; Béné, 2020). Additionally, many parts of the continent rely on rain‐fed agriculture for food (Nyiwul, 2021) and cannot also mitigate and adapt to the exacerbating effect of climate change.…”

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Bilateral climate finance and food security in developing countries: A look at German donations to Sub‐Saharan Africa

Doku

Richardson

Essah

2022

Food and Energy Security

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Sustainable development goal 2 (SDG-2) opined that all countries in the world must brace themselves up to end hunger and achieve food security and improve nutrition by 2030. Unfortunately, at the end of 2017, 770 million people representing 10% of the world population were still exposed to severe food insecurity. This statistic has about 1.4% residing in Northern America and Europe and almost 30% in Africa (FAO et al., 2018;Ten Berge et al., 2019). However, it is estimated that by 2050, global food demand is expected to rise by 60% compared to that of /2007(Alexandratos & Bruinsma, 2012. More so, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is experiencing over 300% demand for food attributable to its population growth (Ten Berge et al., 2019;Van Ittersum et al., 2016). Apart from Asia, Africa is next with the highest number of undernourished people with more than 250 million people undernourished.

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“…These pressures compromise the ability of African cities to meet the needs of current and future populations, making them important spaces to engage with in discourses and practices of sustainable development (Batinge et al, 2017;Kaviti Musango et al, 2020;Mguni et al, 2020). Compounding the problem, traditional policy responses to the infrastructure deficit in these cities have failed to address the specific vulnerabilities of the poor, who make up large swathes of the population within them (Nyiwul, 2021).…”

Section: Introduction: Transdisciplinary Research and The Sustainability Of Food Water And Energy Systems In African Citiesmentioning

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“…The case for linking up responses to deficits in food, water and energy infrastructure rests on the sustainability imperative of balancing material needs with ecological concerns (Kaviti Musango et al, 2020); however, doing so in a manner that is at once efficient and equitable -especially in African cities that have high baseline levels of poverty and 'social inequality' (Nyiwul, 2021; p.1) -presents a formidable challenge (Leck et al, 2018). While this kind of 'nexus' thinking has gained traction in recent years (see, for example, Sood et al, 2019;Adebiyi et al, 2021;Lefore et al, 2021), the debates have been largely framed in 'technomanagerial' terms (Mguni et al, 2020;p.1), focusing as they do on high-level exchanges between public and formal private-sector actors at the expense of the smaller-scale actors and interactions that make up life for the majority of the urban poor (Terrapon-Pfaff et al, 2018).…”

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Mediating Knowledge Co-Production for Inclusive Governance and Delivery of Food, Water and Energy Services in African Cities

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Rising rates of urbanisation in Africa, without attendant improvements in critical infrastructure, have occasioned gaps in the provision of basic services in cities across the continent. Different systems and scales of service delivery — decentralised and centralised, public and private — coexist and often compete in urban spaces but rarely connect in ways that ensure the needs of the poorest are met. Our paper interrogates the value of transdisciplinary research for bringing actors in these systems together to co-produce knowledge for inclusive and sustainable outcomes. Drawing on empirical data from two complementary projects in four African cities, we demonstrate the possibilities for facilitating this kind of knowledge co-production among system actors in the food, water and energy domains. We show, through a comparative approach, elements of the co-production process that enable more responsive engagement by traditionally detached policy actors. From our findings, we generate a framework that local researchers serving as ‘knowledge intermediaries’ can use to stimulate research-policy-society interactions aimed at fostering sustainable and inclusive service delivery across Africa. By synthesising the findings from local case studies into a widely applicable framework, our analysis informs both the theory and practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research in the African context where the imperative to bridge gaps in methodological innovation and service delivery is high.

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Climate change adaptation and inequality in Africa: Case of water, energy and food insecurity

Cited by 69 publications

References 40 publications

Sociological Perspectives on Climate Change and Society: A Review

Sociological Perspectives on Climate Change and Society: A Review

Bilateral climate finance and food security in developing countries: A look at German donations to Sub‐Saharan Africa

Mediating Knowledge Co-Production for Inclusive Governance and Delivery of Food, Water and Energy Services in African Cities

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