Climate change and food security in ethiopia

The model shows that the food security gap in Ethiopia is expected to be greater with climate change than the food security gap without climate change. Reducing crop yields increasing land degradation driving lower water availability placing more pressure on food security and creating major additional challenges for the energy sector.

Rainfall shortage or excess hampers food production causing food insecurity and escalation of famine in the region.

Climate change and food security in ethiopia. In order to build resilience in agricultural systems in Ethiopia the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS promotes innovations by tapping into the expertise of other CGIAR Research Centers as well as other national and regional research networks. Efforts are focused around the promotion of climate-smart agriculture that facilitates adaptation in cereal-based. Food security is highly sensitive to climate risks in Ethiopia.

Historical and more recent climate-related events such as the 20082009 and 2011 food security crises in the Horn of Africa have highlighted the impact of droughts and floods on food production access to markets and income from agricultural activities. However assessing the ways in which livelihoods and specific. The negative impacts of climate change.

In Ethiopia climate change is likely to affect crop yields negatively and therefore food security. However quantitative evidence is lacking about the ability of farm-level adaptation options to offset the negative impacts of climate change and to improve food security. Climate variability and climate change likely are significant contributing factors in the food security challenges Ethiopia currently experiences and will experience going forward.

The USAID Climate Change Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessment ATLAS activity has. There is no doughty that drought is the main driving forces in food insecurity problems in Ethiopia many more other disaster that contribute to food deterioration related to currently weather and climate changesThe 21 were reviewed different studies that have been done on deteriorating situation of food insecurity in Ethiopia. These are population pressure drought shortage of farmland soil erosion.

Though they are not among the countries facing the imminent threat of famine many other countries are severely affected by food insecurity. The list includes Niger Chad Cameroon Eritrea and Ethiopia. No one can deny the effect of climate change as one of the factors that have led to the current food crisis.

The severe drought that is raging in this part of the world is wreaking havoc. This combined with an increasing population and conflict may lead to greater food insecurity in some areas. Climate change related hotspots of increased food insecurity in.

A study by Gutu Bezabih and Mengistu 2012 reveals that in Ethiopia food production faces severe challenges due to climate change noting that the annual production losses to climate variability significantly increase from year to year. As such Ethiopia has been experiencing the impacts of both climate variability and change. Climate change has led to recurrent droughts and famines flooding expansion of desertification loss of wetlands loss of biodiversity decline in agricultural production and productivity shortage of water and increased incidence of pests and diseases such as spread of cereal stemborers and malaria to higher elevation areas.

On the other hand Ethiopia. Agricultural determinants of food security are broadly defined as all effects of climate change on food production and its process. These effects include increased temperatures and frequency of storms and severe weather.

I believe that these effects and their associated case studies afford understanding of food security within the context of their impacts on crops and livestock thus allowing. Agricultural production is sensitive to climate change and food security is sensitive to agricultural production. Climate abnormalities such as perpetual droughts floods heat waves and rainfall failure can have devastating consequences for agricultural production and the impacts could be immediately transmitted to food security and.

Potential climate change-induced food security challenges. The model shows that the food security gap in Ethiopia is expected to be greater with climate change than the food security gap without climate change. The model also shows the potential of family planning to address this gap.

The food security gap under an assumption of low population. Food security is defined according to the World Food Summit of 1996 as existing when all people at all times have access to sufficient safe nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life. This commonly refers to people having physical and economic access to food that meets both their nutritional needs and food preferences.

Increasing food security and resilience in the Somali region The pastoral communities in the region started suffering from low rainfall resulting in harsh living conditions and depletion of their. This paper aims to contribute to the literature on climate change on agriculture by providing a micro perspective on both the impact of climate change on agriculture production and the issue of adaptation and food security. We rely on a farm level survey of 1000 farms carried out in Ethiopia in 2005.

The main target of the survey. Climate variability increases the risks of hunger in the region as it affects all four components of food security. Food availability food accessibility food utilization and food stability.

Rainfall shortage or excess hampers food production causing food insecurity and escalation of famine in the region. Reducing crop yields increasing land degradation driving lower water availability placing more pressure on food security and creating major additional challenges for the energy sector. Ethiopias government appears well aware of the risks it faces and has put in place a battery of policies to address the countrys scarcity challenge.

It has an ambitious agricultural program allocates a high proportion of public. Climate Change IPPC predicts decreasing rainfall in northern and southern Africa increasing rainfall over the EthiopianEast African Highlands and a considerable increase in frequency of floods and drought Figure 1. Food security concerns Food security is defined as a situation when all.

At the same time as delivering food security we must also reduce the environmental impact of food production. Future climate change will make an impact upon food production. On the other hand agriculture contributes up to about 30 of the anthropogenic GHG emissions that drive climate change.