Climate Change and Food Security in Shebelle-Puntland, Somalia
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2023-09
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Kampala International University
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to assess the influence of climate change on food security in Shebelle-Puntland, Somalia. The Specific Objectives were to determine the effect of climate change on food availability amongst the people, to examine the effect of climate change on food utilization amongst the people, to assess the influence of climate change on food system stability amongst the people and to find out the effect of climate change on food accessibility amongst the people in Somalia. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used for data collection and analysis and for purpose of effective triangulation and reliability of the research results; both purposive and random sampling techniques were used to gather data. Questionnaire was employed to attain quantitative data while the interview guide supplemented the questionnaire information and enable the attainment of detailed information. Descriptive statistics in form of mean and standard deviation was used to measure the state of climate change and food security. The data was presented and analyzed using SPSS, their after the normality test of the variables were checked. Simple linear regression analysis was employed to determine whether a significant effect between the independent variables and dependent variables are in existence. The study findings indicate that climate change had 13.5% effect on food availability among the people in Somalia. The significance level was 0.031 implied significant connections that climate change has on food availability in Somalia. Secondly, the study found that climate change had 1.9% effect on food utilization among the people in Somalia. The findings show that climate changes can generate the stability of the food systems in Somalia and finally the study concludes that climate changes in Somalia have a moderate effect on the food accessibility. The study concludes that food availability in Somalia is highly determined by the climate changes, positive climate change is deemed to support the growth of agriculture necessary for inducing the food availability amongst the people in communities. Secondly climate change has not effectively affected the utilization of the food. Climate change can be developed to induce the food system stability amongst the people in Somalia. The study recommend that climate change need to be refocused to appropriate attention with development of policies geared towards the availability of food through growth of crops, provision of food crops. Farmers should be motivated to explore and take advantage of the latest agricultural production technologies and productivity-enhancing process and systems and there should also be processed of relaying information concerning the adaptation and mitigation strategies of climate change to the people of Somalia. This is because, adequate information, education, and communication of laudable adaptation and mitigation practices encouraged sustainable environmental practices by the citizenry.
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A Research Thesis Presented to the College Of Humanities and Social Sciences in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of Master of International Relations and Diplomacy of Kampala International University
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Climate Change, Food Security, Shebelle-Puntland