Food security and agriculture

The Conversation Africa has been tracking the impact of climate change on the African continent. These selected reads shed light on where some of these biggest climate impacts are already being felt and offer insights into how these can be mitigated.

A year on from devastating floods in Greece's agricultural heartland, farmers face a severe drought, and some even harder decisions

Rising food prices are causing more and more people to go hungry in sub-Saharan Africa. My new research shows that an overlooked cause could be El Niño, a climate phenomenon in the Pacific that affects weather patterns globally.

Severe drought in the American Southwest and Mexico and more severe wet years in the Northeast are the modern norm in North America, according to new research – and the analysis suggests these seasonal patterns will be more extreme in the future.

The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production.

When climate change impacts women’s food production and income, it also means less food for men and children. It is long past time for women’s voices to inform strategies for climate adaptation and crisis-response planning.

This paper combines predictions of agricultural suitability under different climate change scenarios with timber-production maps to show that 240–320 Mha (20–26%) of current forestry land will become more suitable for agriculture by 2100.

This brief draws attention to the key benefits of addressing air pollution and the benefit to human health, climate and crop production: Precipitation and temperature benefits; Human health in Africa; Land degradation; and Crop yields.