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Australia already has one of the most variable climates in the world and the changes now underway will determine the "vibrancy of our region." How is climate change influencing food production and other aspects of life in Australia? Dr. Megan Clark is on the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture ...

Is there an appreciation for how existing challenges to food production will be greatly intensified by climate change? Sir John Beddington is chair of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. More information at https://ccafs.cgiar.org/commission

Interview with Kate Raworth - Senior Researcher at OXFAM. Filmed at The Conference on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security, 4 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

The village elders of the Rambad village in India describe how the climate change and the lack of floods are affecting the village and the agriculture and how they are struggling to continue to farm their land. But as the village elders themselves say:"agriculture is our tradition and the earth i...

Tidiane Diarra, a young farmer from Mali, describes how the rainfall patterns have changed over the last years and how the village have had the opportunity to receive a weather station, which is helping the farmers of the area to adapt to changes. They can thus better monitor and predict the rain...

Although food security for all is a widely-held goal, it has not been achieved. Professor Jahn (University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA) on bringing US experiences and perspectives to the work of the commission, and bringing the commission's work to the farming community, policymakers and consumers ...

Interviews with Commissioners - the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. More information at https://ccafs.cgiar.org/commission

Interview with Kate Raworth - Senior Researcher at OXFAM. Filmed at The Conference on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security, 4 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

Margaret Silas is a Kenyan female farmer who grows coffee, sweet potatoes, mango, macadamia, arrow roots and trees on her farm. She faces a lot of problems due to the lack of rain leading to seedlings drying out and subsequent re-plantation for the farmers. As a response, the villagers started us...

Celeste Thia Kangani and Julia Ndia are two Kenyan farmers faced with orphaned grandchildren, decreasing yields and old age. They both describe how the weather has changed and there is less rains, but neither knows why these changes have come about. Before sweet potatoes and cassava were planted ...