How This Farmer in Eswatini Is A Sign of the Climate Future

For millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa, climate change isn't a future problem — it's already here. In Eswatini, subsistence farmers who depend entirely on their crops and cattle to feed their families are facing two simultaneous crises: devastating floods and drought driven by intensifying El Niño and La Niña weather cycles, and the first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the country in over 20 years. We visited families who lost their entire harvests, grandmothers raising six children with food that runs out by mid-month, and a father selling firewood on a mountainside to afford one meal of maize porridge a day. 

Their stories are a warning — because what's happening in Eswatini is happening across the region, and it's getting worse. World Vision is on the ground providing emergency food assistance, climate-resilient seeds, and livestock support to help the most vulnerable families survive today and withstand the next shock. Learn more about World Vision's work: wvi.org