Combat climate change to boost food security

Increasingly, climate change has come with convergent impact on social, political, economical and environmental sectors resulting in new types of challenges for development.

With the cause and effect widely separated in time and space, climate change has a dynamic face that generates unfamiliar challenges in all spheres of social space and has thus attracted debate and studies within a wide spectrum of disciplines, aimed at identifying how best to curb the effects. The erratic rainfall patterns have accelerated land degradation, add to that poor land use and the impact is negative on food production, leading to loss of livelihoods, poverty and vulnerabilities.