Bread for the World recognizes the role of climate change as a top cause of global hunger through impacts such as more frequent and prolonged droughts and floods; reduced food quantity and nutrient quality; and a loss of livelihoods that forces people to abandon their homes. Confronting climate change is essential to ending hunger in Africa since farming employs about half of sub-Saharan Africa's workforce, and parts of the continent, particularly the Sahel countries just south of the Sahara, are among the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change and hunger.