Blog Name:	Africa Climate Debate
Url:	http://africaclimate.org/
Language:	English
Topics:	Africa, Climate, Global Change
Description:	Most of Africa has a warm or hot climate, but the humidity and amount of rainfall vary dramatically from area to area. Africa has the largest tropical area of any continent. The equator runs through the middle of Africa, and about 90 per cent of the continent lies within the tropics. In countries south of the equator, the seasons are opposite those of countries that lie north of the equator. But temperatures are high the year around almost everywhere in Africa. The variations between summer and winter temperatures are slight. In fact, the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures in most parts of the continent is greater than the difference in the average temperatures between the coldest and warmest months. For this reason, some people say that nighttime is the “winter” of the tropics. Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability, a situation aggravated by the interaction of ‘multiple stresses’, occurring at various levels, and low adaptive capacity African farmers have developed several adaptation options to cope with current climate variability, but such adaptations may not be sufficient for future changes of climate Agricultural production and food security (including access to food) in many African countries and regions are likely to be severely compromised by climate change and climate variability.
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