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Food for Thought
Learn about…
Climate Change
Secondary
Become an active Global Citizen!
Aims
To understand the impact climate change
on on small farmers diets and work out if
they are balanced/unbalanced
To identify ways small farmers can be
supported to adapt to climate change
To explore who can help small farmers to
do this and how
Ethiopia
Lekea’s family
The family story
30 years ago, rain would fall for approximately 6 months every year.
Usually starting in March until the end of September. Some years there
would be an occasional drought but the following year, generally the rains
would come as expected.
The family would grow peppers, corn, lentils, peas, white sorghum, lots of
corn and beans. They would grow up to 70kg of food each year, selling
35kg at the market to pay for other food and things like clothes.
The past few years, the rain has been irregular and for shorter periods of
time. Last year the rain didn’t come until July, which meant that planting
was delayed.
These changes have meant they can only now grow about 19kg of food a
year, with no surplus.
Key questions
•How did Lekea’s family get money before?
•What did they use it for?
•Would they be able to do that now? If not,
why not? What has happened?
A balanced diet?
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A balanced diet?
A balanced diet?
A balanced diet?
1. Using the crop cards, work out what the diet of
Lekea’s family was like in the past.
2. What was missing from their diet? How would
they have got this?
3. Next look again at the cards and work out what
their diet will be like now there is frequent
drought. What problems will this cause?
Pre-drought diet…
• Did they have all the food groups?
• What was missing?
• How could they have got the
missing food?
Work out the food groups
Use the
information on the
cards to work out
how much of each
food group there is
add it up for all the foods Lekea’s family
can grow, and compare this to the food
pyramid
Drought affected diet…
Use the information on the cards to
decide what Lekea can grow now…
Drought affected diet…
• Work out what food can be grown in
the drought conditions
• Recalculate the food groups? What is
missing now?
• How can they get the missing food?
• If they can’t, what will this mean for
the family?
Extension…
What is the link to this?
Changes in March-September rainfall for whole of Ethiopia: 1959-2009
730
630
1959
1969
1979
1989
1999
2009
What’s the alternative?
How to adapt?
• Decide in your group what would be
good about your alternative
• Could Lekea’s family do this?
• What help would they need?
• Who should help them?
Climate change hearing
Imagine you are going to a climate
change hearing…
© Aubrey Wade/Oxfam
If you were Lekea
What would you say?
- what is the
problem?
- what change do
you want?
- who should or can
help?
© Aubrey Wade/Oxfam
Make a change…
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section of your wallchart!
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