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- Factors contributing to climate-resilient food security for vulnerable population: a case study of São Tomé e PríncipePublication . Mushumba, Leon Victor; Simões, CatarinaThe increasing impacts of climate change pose major challenges to global food security, particularly for small island developing states (SIDS) whose geographic and socioeconomic characteristics heighten their vulnerability. Sao Tome and Principe (STP), a SIDS highly exposed to climate shocks and dependent on imported food, illustrates how climate-related hazards can undermine food systems and threaten the well-being of the population. Severe floods in 2021 and 2022, which caused loss of lives, destroyed crops and disrupted livelihoods, put on light the country’s limited adaptive capacity and demonstrated the urgent need to strengthen climate resilience within its food systems. This study examines the factors that contribute to climate-resilient food security, combining a theoretical review with an STP case study analysis. The theoretical part explores key concepts of food security, resilience, climate change, and vulnerability, alongside the ways these concepts intersect in small island contexts. The case study reviews the concepts to STP context, analyzing how climate impacts affect food availability, access, utilization and stability. The findings reveal weaknesses on sustainable agriculture and local food systems, social protection mechanisms, access to finance and income diversification, and livelihood strategies as key areas or factors that drive food security resilience. Understanding what drives resilience in STP is important for designing context-specific and evidence-based policies that protect vulnerable households and buffer the country from future shocks. The insights from this study offer pathways for strengthening resilience and offer guidance not only for STP but also for other climate-vulnerable countries seeking to safeguard food security in an increasingly uncertain future.