Ministers of agriculture from 30 African countries, including Nigeria have met to discuss actionable solutions to the threat posed by climate change to agriculture in Africa.
The meeting was the 2nd annual ministerial conference of the Adapting African Agriculture (AAA) Initiative, themed “Food Security Facing Climate Change”.
The 2-day conference which was held at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Benguerir, Morocco, in partnership with OCP Africa, also had representatives of International and regional funding organisations and institutions in attendance.
The high point of the conference was the ministerial declaration on the actions needed to tackle head-on, the issue of adapting African agriculture to climate change.
The threats posed by climate change to Agriculture are already manifesting in most African countries. To name a few: Tunisia has experienced increased temperatures and 15 per cent drop in rainfall, Central African Republic has witnessed…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
