ABSTRACT
The promise of an effective food and climate information system is to improve the management of production, processing and distribution of food. Continuing increase in world population, together with rising expectations for a better standard of living, has put additional pressure on food supplies, and at times has increased the magnitude of the impact of climatic variability on food production and distribution systems. The African Sahel has been a chronic food problem region for hundreds of years, supporting only marginal agriculture. Food and Agriculture Organization had disrupted the precarious balance of the traditional land-use system." A food and climate information system, if properly used, can yield important savings to a chronic food problem country willing to invest scarce resources and allocate its limited scientific-technical manpower to its development and operation. One of the best examples of a food and climate information system at work is the one functioning within the Canadian Wheat Board in Winnipeg.
