Foodsecurity through the lens of Permaculture

Achieving food security in its totality continues to be a challenge in developing nations especially those in Africa. The root cause of food insecurity in developing countries is the inability of people to gain access to food due to poverty (Pinstrup-Aderesen, 2002). While the rest of the world has made significant progress towards poverty alleviation, Africa, in particular Sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind. Karamoja region is not any different from other developing regions battling with food insecurity because of poverty and unpredictable rainfall. For quite a long point in time, Karamoja region has suffered prolonged draught due to unpredictable rain failure which has inflicted a lot of misery to the people by making them food insecure because of little or no food harvests. In the dawn of climate change, the situation may further deteriorate if urgent sustainable food security strategies are not introduced in Karamoja. Read more to find out how Permaculture will help in reverting the current food insecurity in Karamoja in the long run.