Climate Change and Food Security

e’ve gotten used to the looks on farmers’ faces by now—shaking heads, looking to the sky as if for an explanation, frowning worriedly. The rains aren’t the same as they used to be, they tell us. One no longer knows when the rainy season has truly started, when one can begin planting. It is hotter in harmattan season than it used to be. These changes are attributed to various causes, depending on the farmers’ level of education and cultural context—defores

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