Kago Rabasoma

1 Introduction Worsening environmental issues caused by global warming and climate change, such as extreme weather and unreliable rainfall, have devastated the farming industry. Abiodun et al. (2018) have reported that intensified droughts have led to food insecurity in Southern Africa. The impacts of climate change on agriculture, coupled with the continued population increase, have resulted in food shortages all over the world (Maia et al. 2020).

1 INTRODUCTION The world has been struggling with emergencies such as global warming, drought and energy and food insecurity which continue to put increased pressure on our natural resources (Carreño-Ortega et al., 2021; Marrou et al., 2013).