NaijaAgroNet
The Eco-system Based Adaptation
(EBA) driven agriculture has been acknowledged among priority mechanisms for
delivering the 2025 Vision on Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).
EBA is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an
overall adaptation strategy to
help people to adapt to the
adverse effects of climate change.
NaijaAgroNet reports that the Commissioner for the
Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union (AU), Mrs. Rhoda Peace
Tumusiime, made this known while delivering a keynote as Guest of Honour at the
official opening of the Second Africa Eco-system based Adaptation (EbA) for
Food Security 2015 Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, which had the theme, “Re-imagining
Africa Food Security through Harnessing Eco-system based Adaptation(EBA)
Approaches- Now and into the Future under Climate Change”.
She said “To operationalize
the African Union Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Africa Agriculture Growth
and Transformation, the African Union Commission and the NEPAD Planning and
Coordinating Agency in consultation with multiple stakeholders and partners,
developed the implementation strategy and roadmap as well as the porogramme of
work. Within these strategic documents, eco-system based adaptation (EBA)
driven agriculture is recognized as being among priority mechanisms for
delivering the 2025 Vision on CAADP.”
The Conference which
attracted about 1,500 participants from all over Africa as well as development
finance and technical partners from all parts of world, NaijaAgroNet gathered, had key objectives of determining how EbA can be harnessed to
protect and restore Africa’s ecosystems as well as integrate it into policy
frameworks to enable improved agricultural production and productivity.
It is also to identify
scalable and inclusive business models for EbA driven agriculture that can
create opportunities in the entire agricultural value chain, and understand the
benefits of EbA for job and wealth creation and the achievement of the proposed
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and
what Africa will lose as a continent if EbA is ignored or given little support
in the context of increasing population and rapid urbanization coupled with
climate change, NaijaAgroNet reports.
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Pix: Mrs. Rhoda Peace
Tumusiime,