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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Climate Change and Food Security in Asia Pacific -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Tackling Regional Climate Change and Food Security Issues: An Introduction -- Objectives and Central Themes -- Conceptual Threads -- Approach and Methods -- The Prospectus -- References -- 2 Climate Change and Food (In)Security Nexus -- Introduction -- How Climate Change Is Affecting Food Security -- How All Three Factors Affect Food Security -- Food Availability -- Economic and Physical Access to Food -- Food Utilization -- Stability of Food Supply -- How Food Production Systems Are Affecting Climate Change -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Climate Change and Food Security in ASEAN -- Background and History of ASEAN -- Climate Change Impact on Food Security on ASEAN Member States -- Impact on Land and Agricultural Productivity -- Impact on Marine Ecosystems, Fisheries, and Aquaculture -- Future Policy Implications -- ASEAN as a Regional Forum for Climate Change and Food Security Initiatives -- ASEAN Institutional Framework for Environmental Cooperation -- ASEAN Regional Cooperation Architecture for Food Security -- ASEAN Multi-sectoral Framework on Climate Change and Food Security -- ASEAN Integrated Food Security (AIFS) Framework: The Plan -- ASEAN Climate Change Initiative (ACCI) -- Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry Toward Food Security (AFCC) -- ASEAN Plus Three Initiatives: Mechanism and Capacity-Building for Food Security -- ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) -- Analysis of the Initiatives and Programmes -- Planning -- Implementation -- Cooperation -- Legal Obligation -- International Contribution -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Climate Change and Food Security in SAARC -- Background and History of SAARC -- Climate Change Impact on Food Security in SAARC Member States.

Regional organizations are central to effectively addressing the current and future impacts of climate change and food security issues. Climate change and food security issues can only be dealt with through extensive policies that adopt a multi-sector, multi-stakeholder approach. An examination of three regional organizations (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Pacific Islands Forum, and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) can provide new insights into current climate change mitigation policies that will ensure food security for future generations. This opening chapter thus begins with the premise that regional organizations are optimally positioned to address climate change and food security issues while actively engaging global partners to reverse current trajectories. Although many regional organizations acknowledge that climate change and food security are of utmost importance, they face multifaceted obstacles that impede the region's ability to effectively cope with these problems. This chapter briefly reviews current initiatives undertaken by regional organizations such as ASEAN, PIF, and SAARC; analyses these initiatives according to five criteria, showing how regional cooperation may contribute to climate change and food security initiatives; and highlights impediments to the formulation of progressive policies in the future. It draws connections between the efficacy of policies and the politico-economic processes that impact the development, cooperation, and execution of regional policies. The remaining part of the chapter highlights methodology used in this book, organization of chapters, and implications of the book for the political economy of food and climate change in the age of vulnerability.

Climate change and food security issues are multi-faceted and transcend across national boundaries. Therefore, this paper begins with the premise that regional organizations are optimally positioned to address climate change and food security issues while actively engaging global partners to slow down or reverse current trajectories. However, the potential of regional organizations to play a central role in mitigating these vital concerns has not been realized. In this paper, we focus on three regional organizations—the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and set out to investigate the multifaceted obstacles that impede regional organizations' ability to effectively cope with these problems. We qualitatively review the efficacy of policies and examine the connections between politico-economic processes that affect the development, cooperation, and execution of regional policies. In doing so, we review regional policies using five key criteria: (i) planning, (ii) implementation, (iii) cooperation, (iv) legal obligation and (v) international contribution. Our findings suggest that regional organizations face fundamental problems in the implementation of extensive policies due to the lack of cooperation and legal obligation between member nation-states that stems from fundamental prioritization of national development agendas over regional cooperation.