**1. Introduction**

The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2014) anticipated quick changes in climate, even if greenhouse gas emissions are condensed [1]. The impact of future climate change can be reduced by mitigation but cannot be stopped altogether. Around 80 percent of the Ugandan population is dependent on agriculture. Uganda's rain fed agriculture is crucial to the masses for consumption and income generation [2]. It thus becomes paramount to scrutinize the change in climate, in terms of overall temperature and precipitation levels, or in terms of variations in seasonality of rainfall as it directly alters the state of revenue and services provided by the ecosystem. Of late, substantial amounts of variations and extreme events are being witnessed. The detrimental effects of anthropological and environmental impacts can surely be fended off by anticipating and getting accustomed to them. The most vulnerable however, are the marginalized smallholder farmers in Sub- Saharan Africa as their inadequate capacity to adapt keeps them at the receiving end of facing setbacks to farming livelihoods [3]. Hence, it becomes essential to categorize and understand possible adaptation to cope with the impacts of it.

Climate change has a global impact which is evident in the contemporary adversarial changes in climate and can be seen in some of its manifestations in the form of prolonged drought spells, temperature variations [4, 5]. Countless instances of climate change impacting biomes, livelihoods, and human development were recorded and recognized by several studies [6–8]. A risk in the form of biomass loss and runoff is posed due to prolonged drought spells and floods [8–10] that consequently affects the agricultural sector. Moreover, it has been established that Global warming has direct consequences on Global Food security and Agricultural production. [11–14]

As the population of Lwengo, Uganda is dependent on agriculture which is a Climate Sensitive sector. Any change in the Climatic conditions would definitely reflect on the agriculture and would effect the food security of the masses hence it is very important for the population of Lwengo to see the manifestations of Climate Change and to ponder upon the various dimensions of the same.

This in turn affects people's basic livelihood enterprises amounting to great uncertainty [15] especially in places like Sub- Saharan Africa that is predominantly dependent on rain-fed agriculture [16]. Agriculture sector is the backbone of Uganda's economy as the agriculture sector supports over 70% of the people, so the variations in temperature and Climate Change is a real cause of concern for them [17]. Surrounded by a small scale and mixed crop system, the agriculture sector contributes 70% to the country's GDP - wherein 75% of employment is provided to the national workforce by the ago -enterprise niche [18]. The agriculture is however suffering in the hands of hydrometeorological disasters contributing to hunger and death of the livestock. In recent times, new challenges in the form of precipitation have been noticed which makes it urgent to make preparations for necessary and possible adaptation practices in order to avoid economic shocks that could possibly pour out from the agricultural sector [19, 20].
