Author: Nyabenyi Tipo

Our environment and biodiversity at large are of paramount importance in our agri-food systems. These agrifood systems in countless ways depend on plants, animals and micro-organisms that comprise and surround them. Biodiversity underpins the capacity of farmers, forest dwellers, fisher folks to produce food and a range of other goods and services. These great life-giving and supporting resources face immense threats from climate change. The effects are being felt in increased temperatures, raising sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and extreme weather patterns. Climate Change is a threat to human, animal and plant health resulting in emergence and re-emergence of pests…

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