Rainfall variation is a key constraint to agricultural productivity and economic growth in many developing nations. This is likely to be exacerbated in many …show more content…
The most vulnerable are often the poor, politically disenfranchised and sidelined communities, who are among the first to experience the effects and least equipped to diversify their livelihoods activities (Eriksen, 2011; Mannke, 2011). As a result, low income persons dependent on subsistence farming will arguably face severe hardships because they have little flexibility to cushion potentially large shifts in their production bases (FAO, 2008; Ribot, 2010). Climate stresses particularly rainfall variability will push these populations over an all-too-low threshold into an insecurity and poverty that jeopardizes their basic human rights (Moser & Norton,