Sierra Leone: 'Climate Change Is a Fundamental Threat to Food Security'

While addressing the press on this year's World Food Day, Country Representative of the Food and Agricultural Organization, Madam Nyabenyi Tipo observed that climate change has become a threat to global food security and that it was undermining crop yield in many parts of the world including Sierra Leone.

"Rising temperatures, change in rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events are affecting our ability to produce the food we need. The world's poorest people and countries are particularly hard hit. They depend on smallholder agriculture to provide income and food," she said.

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