In many developing countries, a significant number of poor families face poverty, hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, which intensify with adverse biophysical growing conditions and poor socio-economic infrastructure (Wani, etal., Crop production, which is vital to global food security, is already being affected by climate change, more so in impoverished communities. It has been predicted that over the next decades, billions of people, especially those living in developing countries, will face water and food shortages, and greater risks to health and life because of climate change.