Climate Change in Africa I live in Nigeria, West Africa and I have observe the change in rain, harmattan and dry seasons, as years pass, I notices some inconsistences in weather in northern Nigeria, Kaduna State precisely. And now as I develop this interest in agriculture, I have come to realize that the weather is a very important factor of food production and even food security as a whole here in Africa, because a high percentage of food producers"farmers" depend on the natural weather distribution (e.g rainfall) for productions . So what is climate/weather change? Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic erup...