Blog Action Day '09

Project CARE puts a human face on just one effect of climate change. For example, David Sumbo, Program Coordinator for CARE in Ghana, tells that:

Millet is a very important crop in Ghana, but the impacts of climate change are dramatically reducing yields. There is little we can do to restore better millet harvests, so CARE is introducing other crops that are more resilient to the local impacts of climate change.

Such major adjustments are required worldwide as a result in the shifts in weather patterns, including rain, storms and temperature. While agricultural conglomerates ponderously labor to accommodate American dairy and cattle interests, those who help the poorest people in the world to feed themselves scramble to side-step into more effective models.

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