This book addresses the relationship between religion, climate change, and food security in Africa. Contributors to this volume interrogate how and to what extent religion in Africa serves as a resource (or confounding factor) in responding to Sustainable Development Goals 13 (action on climate change) and 2 (achieve Zero Hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture). Approaching the theme from diverse disciplinary and methodological angles, contributors probe the potential role of religion in Africa to accelerate the achievement of these two SDGs, especially the role of religion with regard to food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and food systems stability.
Chapter 1. Religion, Climate change and Food security in Africa.- Chapter 2. Prophetic action, Climate Change, food security and SDG 2 in Africa.- Chapter 3. Islam, Climate Change, food security and SDG 2 in Morocco.- Chapter 4. Religion, Climate Change and food availability and accessibility in Africa.- Chapter 5. Religious Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Security in Ghana.- Chapter 6. Rastafarianism, climate change and Crop Failure in Africa.- Chapter 7. Catholicism, climate change and pests in Africa.- Chapter 8. Farming God's Way to avert crop failure and pests in Malawi.- Chapter 9. Crop diseases and Food insecurity in Africa: A Hindu Perspective.- Chapter 10. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Food Security in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Bota Reshupa (Herbal Porridge) among the Ndau of Zimbabwe.- Chapter 11. Indigenous knowledge systems, climate Change and food security in Kenya.- Chapter 12. African Women, Religion and Food Securityin the Context of Pandemics.- Chapter 13. Gender, Religion, food security and climate change in Africa.- Chapter 14. Women, Religion and food insecurity of urban people in South Africa.- Chapter 15. Climate-related conflicts, religion and food production and distribution in Africa.- Chapter 16. Faith-Based Organisations and Food Security in Africa: A Critical Review.- Chapter 17. Pentecostalism, Theology of Survival and Food Security in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 18. Religion, food security and resilience of Rural people in Ghana.- Chapter 19. Religion, Food security and Climate Change Mitigation: A Case of Luangwa Valley Women of Present Eastern Zambia.
Loreen Maseno is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion, Theology and Philosophy, Maseno University, Kenya and Research fellow, University of South Africa (UNISA). David Andrew Omona is an Associate Professor of Ethics and International Relations and Dean School of Social Sciences at Uganda Christian University. Ezra Chitando is Professor of History and Phenomenology of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe. Sophia Chirongoma is a Senior Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.
