Climate Change in Africa Fifteen faith based organizations and denominations have partnered with the Foods Resource Bank (FRB), a non-profit program that works through growing projects here in the US to provide financial assistance to communities abroad to enable them to become food secure. Of these fifteen, nine are associated with the National Council of Churches. In 2006, the FRB and its members contributed $2.5 million dollars to these impoverished countries.  Of that money, $1.2 million was donated by NCC affiliated organizations, the majority of which went to African communities and assisted more that 470,000 people in their efforts to achieve food security. Food security is clearly an important issue for the church and one in which both money and time have been invested.   However, global warming is creating new stressors for these communities. Various global warming reports indicate that Africa will be hardest hit by global warming.  Droughts and floods are taking place more frequently, devastating agricultural land and ruining crops for those who are working for long term food security. Projections indicate that Africa will suffer extreme impacts from global warming with some countries losing more than 50 percent of their annual yield.  Reduced water availability and rising sea level  will inevitably have life threatening impacts on agricultural production with little regard for the fact that Africa’s local agricultural production is necessary to ensure health and food security on this continent. and crop revenues could drop by 90 percent by the year 2100.          What does this mean for the Future?   Learn More! Click here to learn what you can do to fight global warming Resources on global warming Climate Change and Poverty Climate Change Home