One critical front for action for the small holder farmers
at this climate change period has been identified as water management,
according to Graziano da Silva, the Director-General of the Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO), reports NaijaAgroNet.
He revealed that millions of the world's small-scale farmers
are already wrestling with water scarcity, which will likely intensify as a
result of climate change.
The FAO boss, who spoke as one of the panelists at the World
Government Summit in Dubai, said this was why at the last UN climate change
conference FAO and partners launched a global framework on water scarcity in
agriculture that aims to support developing countries in bringing stronger
policies and programmes for the sustainable use of water in agriculture online.
Participating in the panel discussion "Climate in
Action: Feeding the Future" along with Graziano da Silva were Tshering
Tobgay, Prime Minister of Bhutan, Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change
and Environment of the United Arab Emirates, and Patricia Espinosa, Executive
Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC).
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Pix; Graziano da Silva, the Director-General, FAO.