The course is designed to provide a general understanding on emerging issues, challenges and opportunities with regards to global, regional, national, community and household food security issues and impacts. The course focuses on the four dimensions of food security namely: availability, access, utilization and stability. Participants are to critically analyze the challenges of climate change on food security including the identification of adaptation and mitigation measures to address this. They also learn how to strengthen and sustain food security projects to ensure that efforts to improve access, availability, utilization and stability of food are adapted and continued by farmer households and the community.