Hunger signals climate change�s arrival

“There is an intricate relationship between rainfall, rangelands, agriculture, wildlife and climate variability and change. As climate change ushers in more stress on the water sector, it is increasingly a concern that losses in rangeland productivity will result in food insecurity, especially in rural areas,” says a country analysis report released recently on Botswana.  

Far from the airy conference rooms where such reports are typically shared, are the thousands of subsistence farmers in Botswana for whom the words on these reports come to life in the fields and the paddocks every harvest season.