Farming is a major contributor to the economic development of Kenya. It is the source of livelihood for over 80 percent of the total population. Agriculture education in secondary school was expected to revitalise the agriculture sector. Yet, despite the teaching of agriculture schools production from the sector is on the decline. A survey was conducted to establish the influence of the grade achieved in agriculture at school and performance in farming after school. The target population comprised of farmers with agriculture knowledge from secondary school. A sample of 100 respondents was obtained through snowball method. Ex-post facto/survey design was employed. Structured questionnaires were used to obtain data. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the objective, while inferential statistics was used for the hypothesis. Findings from the survey revealed a non-correlationship between agriculture grades and performance in farming. The conclusion drawn from the survey disclosed the grade obtained at school had no statistical relationship with performance in farming. The recommendation was that, agriculture education at secondary school should be reviewed and refocused more on pragmatism besides acquisition of quality grades. Lastly, secondary school agriculture education should be backed up with specialised training after school to adapt one to farming.

Introduction Food security has been recognized as a significant concern spanning a spectrum from the individual to global level (Food Agricure Organization (FAO, 2001). The concept had widely been defined, since 1974. Among the various definitions include; volume and stability of food supplies, securing food access by vulnerable people, to the more integrated and widely accepted definition of a situation that exists when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and health life (FAO, 2011). Sustainable food production through engagement in agricultural production activities is considered one of critical aspects that define food security (Mechlem, 2004). According to Mechlem, food has to be produced to be available, accessible and be utilized. Thus, at the core of food security, one would conclude that, it may be critical how agricultural production activities are tailored towards ensuring availability of food. Food production is a variable affected by several factors (High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE, 2011b). Among these factors include; availability of inputs, farmers knowledge, agricultural practices and of recent and that which has attracted concern among agricultural stakeholder is climate change (Hatfield, 2011). A part from dealing with challenges associated with other factors affecting food production, farmers have to deal with challenges that are specifically associated with climate change, this has therefore made an increased attention to the linkage between food security and climate change across the globe. According to HLPE (2011a) food insecurity and climate change are increasing the two major global challenges humanity is facing and climate change is perceived as one of the greatest challenges of food security. Climate change makes it harder to overcome the challenges of food security which already requires many resources. It reduces the productivity of existing food systems and harms the livelihoods of those already vulnerable to food insecurity. 1.1. The Concept of Climate Change Climate change is a long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in the average weather conditions or a change in the distribution of weather events with respect to an average, for example, greater or fewer extreme weather events. Climate change may be limited to a specific region, or may occur across the whole Earth. According to IPCC (2012), the scientific opinion on climate change is that the earth's climate is unequivocally warming and it is extremely likely (at least 95% probability) that humans are causing most of it through activities that increase concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as deforestation and burning of fossil fuels.