Climate Change affects Farmers, Food Security

These video photoessays – one interviewing Colombian coffee growers, another Ghanaian farmers – document how a 2-degree rise in temperature has already hurt some of the world’s most vulnerable people. The videos show how rising temperatures have damaged crops, led to increased pests and disease, and ultimately forced farmers to switch to less profitable crops – or even abandon their land entirely.

These are striking examples of what the future could hold: a massive human migration as breadbaskets turn into to dust bowls.

From the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, Food Security