Rethinking Food Systems in a Warming World

Jabulani Garwi is an academic researcher, diplomat, and development practitioner specialising in sustainable development, climate change, sustainable agriculture, and African development studies. Affiliated with UNISA, he has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals indexed in leading databases such as Scopus, contributing to sustainable development scholarship in Africa.Carlos Cadena-Gaitan is a scholar and practitioner working at the intersection of public policy and development. He is affiliated with EAFIT University and co-edits Rethinking Food Systems in a Warming World, convening interdisciplinary perspectives on resilient and regenerative food systems. Carlos is the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Ambassador to Colombia and a Matsumae International Foundation Fellow (Japan)Reason Masengu is an Assistant Professor specialising in marketing. He has over seven years of higher education experience and holds a PhD in Business Management, linking market strategy to innovation and sectoral transformation.

• Chapter 1: Introduction – The Nexus of Food Systems and Climate Change.- Chapter 2: The Global State of Food Security.- Chapter 3: Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food Systems.- Chapter 4: Industrial Agriculture and Environmental Degradation.- Chapter 5: Social and Economic Inequalities in Food Systems.- Chapter 6: Agroecology as a Climate-Resilient Approach.- Chapter 7: Digital Transformation in Agriculture.- Chapter 8: Promoting Sustainable Diets.- Chapter 9: Circular Economy in Food Systems.- Chapter 10: Role of Smallholder Farmers in Transforming Food Systems.- Chapter 11: Policy Frameworks for Sustainable Food Systems.- Chapter 12: Financing Food System Transformation.- Chapter 13: International Collaboration and Governance.- Chapter 14: Case Studies from the Global South.- Chapter 15: Conclusion – A Call to Action.