Climate Change and Food Security
Food Security in South Africa

© Eric Miller
Barren field on a Free State farm.

A changing climate means we have to change the way we live. In terms of food security, climate change has effects on what we can grow and when, our access to water and our exposure diseases through food. South Africa Online ® explores these and other effects of climate change on our food systems.

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