Abstract
Food security is a pressing global concern, with the effects of climate change presenting significant challenges, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Climate change, including shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events, threatens agricultural productivity and exacerbates food insecurity. Kenya is one of the countries in Africa that is highly susceptible to climate change impacts resulting from drought and rising temperature. It is imperative to explore adaptive strategies to ensure food security in the region. This paper explores the potential of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices as a transformative adaptive strategy to address weather-induced food crises in SSA, using Kenya as a case study. To achieve this aim, the paper highlights escalating global food insecurity, particularly in Africa, where malnutrition rates are on the rise due to challenges such as deteriorating purchasing power, limited access to healthy diets, and healthcare constraints. The paper adopts the use review of literatures, quantitative and qualitative analysis of data, and comparative assessment as the methodological tool to investigate how climate change is exacerbating these weather patterns and making the capacity to build livelihood resilience to address the problem of food insecurity.
Presenters
Gabriel AyayiaStudent, MS Environmental Science/Applied Ethics, Oregon State University, Oregon, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMART SMART AGRICULTURE, FOOD INSECECURITY, KENYA
