Climate change is a food security issue
Climate change
is a food security issue
Over the past two weeks, world leaders have come together at the UN Climate Conference (COP26) to discuss how to accelerate action towards tackling the climate crisis. The decisions they’ve been making will set the course for the world’s efforts to address climate change for years to come.
We have been following the conference hopeful that smallholder farmers wouldn't be left out of these discussions.
Smallholder farmers are one of the most vulnerable groups to changes in our weather and climate. 95% of all farms in Sub Saharan Africa rely exclusively on rainfall, so too much or too little has huge effects on harvests. And a temperature increase of 2°C will result in an additional 189 million people facing food insecurity (WFP).
World leaders can no longer ignore the fact that climate change is a food security issue. We need urgent action to help build the climate resilience of the some 525 million smallholder farmers across the world.
COP26 presented a real opportunity to do something to prevent this hunger crisis by ensuring smallholder farmers’ voices were heard. However, we don’t feel smallholders were high enough on the climate action agenda. They deserve better.
Climate change
is a food security issue
Over the past two weeks, world leaders have come together at the UN Climate Conference (COP26) to discuss how to accelerate action towards tackling the climate crisis. The decisions they’ve been making will set the course for the world’s efforts to address climate change for years to come.
We have been following the conference hopeful that smallholder farmers wouldn't be left out of these discussions.
Smallholder farmers are one of the most vulnerable groups to changes in our weather and climate. 95% of all farms in Sub Saharan Africa rely exclusively on rainfall, so too much or too little has huge effects on harvests. And a temperature increase of 2°C will result in an additional 189 million people facing food insecurity (WFP).
World leaders can no longer ignore the fact that climate change is a food security issue. We need urgent action to help build the climate resilience of the some 525 million smallholder farmers across the world.
COP26 presented a real opportunity to do something to prevent this hunger crisis by ensuring smallholder farmers’ voices were heard. However, we don’t feel smallholders were high enough on the climate action agenda. They deserve better.
