Religious Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Security in Ghana

There has been a global journey toward ending poverty and inequalities while protecting the earth as captured in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations (UN). Although there had been some progress in achieving these goals, the UN report in 2022 on the SDGs indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and conflicts have significantly caused a reversal in most of the strides made so far. SDG 1: No Poverty, SDG 2: Zero Hunger and SDG 13: Climate Action are directly linked to food security. Food security entails the availability, accessibility, and utilization of safe and nutritious food by all people at all times for a healthy and active life. In Ghana, the impact of climate change on food security is obvious. There are social, cultural, economic, political, and religious dimensions to the discourse on climate change and food security. This chapter focuses on the religious (particularly Christian) dimensions to climate change and food security in Ghana from an ecotheological framework. Ecotheology is a theological discourse on nature which raises concern about the state of the environment. The chapter will also consider reflections on some relevant accounts of efforts toward achieving food security in the Bible.