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 eruptions and certain human activities have been identified as primary causes of ongoing climate change, often referred to as global warming.(Wikipedia)
Judging from this definition there are alot reasons for this changes in climate but the human activities is more of a primary cause,especially here in Africa. Across Africa the landscape is changing. Droughts, heat stress and flooding have led to a reduction in crop yields and livestock productivity. In west Africa derstifcation is gradually crippring in on us as a result of human practices such as, poor farming methods, grazing, pollution and population. In just Nigeria half of the population can't access clean water for personal use, leave irrigation as a topic for another day, with over 300 million hungry people of which are mostly women and children. Hence the need to urbanize and diversify agriculture in Africa as she is still expecting a greater population boom as the years goes by, food security and a holistic urban agriculture should be our goal .
"Hunger is not a issue of charity. it's an issue of JUSTICE"(Jacques
.D.)
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 eruptions and certain human activities have been identified as primary causes of ongoing climate change, often referred to as global warming.(Wikipedia)
Judging from this definition there are alot reasons for this changes in climate but the human activities is more of a primary cause,especially here in Africa. Across Africa the landscape is changing. Droughts, heat stress and flooding have led to a reduction in crop yields and livestock productivity. In west Africa derstifcation is gradually crippring in on us as a result of human practices such as, poor farming methods, grazing, pollution and population. In just Nigeria half of the population can't access clean water for personal use, leave irrigation as a topic for another day, with over 300 million hungry people of which are mostly women and children. Hence the need to urbanize and diversify agriculture in Africa as she is still expecting a greater population boom as the years goes by, food security and a holistic urban agriculture should be our goal .
"Hunger is not a issue of charity. it's an issue of JUSTICE"(Jacques
.D.)
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