Food Security and Climate Change
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Aaron Kaah Yancho
The world is teetering on the brink of global hunger and food insecurity. One important way of averting such destruction is to improve agriculture to be more resilient to climate change which is already exacting a toll on both developing and developed countries. MOSHE * TSEHLO in LESOTHO takes an insight in to these challenges.
Achieving this means using the environment, on which agriculture depends more sustainably. In particular the world will need to tackle three environmental issues: declining diversity, water scarcity and climate change in a way that does not compromise developmental goals. Delivering pro-poor sustainable and more productive agriculture requires policy makers to integrate environment more intricately into food security and farming policies, programmes and funding decisions. Agriculture is both a driver and victim of climate change, on the one hand, the carbon emissions of each link in the industrial food chain from seed to plate including the production of inputs such as fertilizers, all contribute to climate change.
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