The climate emergency is visible in many aspects of life including food security. 

Food security is a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The inverse condition to food security is famine or food insecurity.

In Karamoja, a semi-arid region in the North Eastern part of Uganda, over 900 people have succumbed to hunger-related diseases since February, this year due to famine in the region.

Some environmentalists have linked the prolonged famine to partly being inspired by climate change and the government's neglection of climate action and environmental conservation.

The Karamoja community is highly dependent on agriculture for food and livelihood, which sector is highly sensitive to climate and land conditions. The area is at risk of desertification which is accelerated by rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall.

There are extreme weather events inclusive of long dry spells and droughts characterised by prolonged water shortages which further cause poor and low harvests and inadequate sanitation. These cause food shortage and water borne diseases.

Food shortage causes malnutrition which can result into starvation and subsequent death. 

References

Food security: concepts and measurement

https://www.fao.org/3/y4671e/y4671e06.htm#fn31

Hunger kills 900 in Karamoja - leaders

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/special-reports/hunger-kills-900-in-karamoja-leaders-3891186

Kaduuli, Stephen Charles, 'Forced Migration' in Karamoja Uganda (December 12, 2008).

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