By Our Reporter
Collaboration by various stakeholders including governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) and research bodies is needed now to rapidly scale-up the African agricultural sector to improve food security and resilience to climate change.
Research by the African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) through the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program shows that climate change effects are becoming more frequent and more severe. They are threatening the reliability and productivity of agriculture, exacerbating the already extreme levels of poverty and reinforcing persistent inequity and chronic under-nutrition.
“The African Union is supporting the implementation of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Africa through the Agriculture Climate Change Program and other related initiatives. These efforts will sustainably increase productivity, resilience and adaptation, as well as build capacity at all levels, especially for smallholder farmers and institutions in order to attain the goal of 25 million African farmers practicing Climate-Smart Agriculture by 2025,
