DID YOU KNOW?
People are making
awful choices in sub-
Saharan Africa.
awful choices in sub-
Saharan Africa.
AND IT’S
Because of awful choices made thousands of miles away from them.
By you and me.
WHY?
We've chosen convenience, consumption, and neglect—and it caught up to us.
HOW?
Heat
the kind of heat
that is unsafe for life
that is unsafe for life
is rising across sub-Saharan Africa during the planting and harvesting seasons.
SO WHAT?
The people growing food are being forced to choose between their health and their livelihoods as they work in it.
Billions of choices.
Awful choices.
WELL,
What would you choose?
Imagine it's the not-too-distant future, and you are an agricultural worker on a farm in and it’s the season. At some point you’ll need to make a choice between your health and your income.
You’ll be making this choice this season.
/
You’ll need to make this choice more .
You’ve made .
/
You put your health at risk this season by choosing to work when temperatures were dangerously hot.
/
You put your income, food for yourself, or food for your family at risk this season by choosing not to work when temperatures were dangerously hot.
agricultural workers in also have to make this choice during the season.
If they all followed your choices, then workers across the country would choose to risk their health over the course of the season, and their income, food for self, or food for family .
OVERALL
The impacts of climate change on African agriculture are unique and complex.
BUT WE KNOW
Extreme heat is disasterous.
AND
It is just one of many climate-related changes that are requiring painful choices.
But the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are choosing to adapt.
Scientists, researchers, and policy makers are rushing to help.
Explore what is being done and find out how you can get involved.
We need to choose what we will do next.