Rescuing Africa's Agriculture
At the invitation of ClimDev-Africa, the participants of the Fourth Edition of the Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDAIV) on the theme ‘Africa Can Feed Africa Now : Translating Climate Knowledge into Action’, will reflect primarily on agriculture, as all research point to agriculture as the key engine of economic growth in Africa. The impacts of climate change are particularly severe in Africa, given the continent’s low adaptive capacity owing to weak institutional, economic and financial capacity. It is crucial to understand the potential impacts of current and future climate change on the African agriculture and to identify ways and means to adapt to and mitigate the adverse effects, in order to enhance agriculture’s performance and sustainability. At Marrakech, the possibilities to provide timely climate information to end-users, especially to the local farmer, the ways and means to reduce the current divide between rural and urban areas, the strengthening of links throughout the agricultural value chain and the impact of migration on food production and security will be studied with deftness.
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2014-10
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/34650 |
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