The Africa’s
first Climate Smart-Agriculture Alliance Forum, an Africa’s strategic approach for food security
and nutrition in the face of climate change has been slated to hold in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, NajiaAgroNet reports.
The launch of the
Africa CSA Alliance Forum which will hold at Capital Hotel and Spa, NajiaAgroNet gathered, was formulated to foster harmonisation
across various programmes being undertaken by African countries in climate
change and agriculture. It is also a critical milestone in facilitating the
sharing and learning on the various Climate Smart-Agriculture initiatives.
According to the
information made available to NajiaAgroNet, the Africa CSA Alliance Forum will
specifically agree on the general Africa-specific guiding
principles and standards in domesticating the CSA definition into local/country
and farming systems specific circumstances; validate the Africa CSA Vision
25x25 toolbox, an important tool for continental benchmarking and measuring CSA
adoption for the “25 million targeted farming households by 2025”; facilitate sharing across the various CSA
initiatives at various levels.
It will also foster
alignment in regional efforts in supporting and contributing to delivering on
the “Africa CSA Vision 25x25” (based on ecosystems potential and related political
economy issues).
NajiaAgroNet also learnt that the Africa
Climate-Smart Alliance Forum will be attended by: H.E Ato Sileshi Gutahun, Ethiopian State Minister for Agriculture; H.E Rhoda Peace Tumusiime
– African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, H.E Yasmine Foaud – Assistant Minister
for Sustainable Development and External Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Arab
Republic of Egypt. H.E Andreas
Gaarder - Norwegian Ambassador to Ethiopia
Also in
attendance will be representatives and participants from Governments, Regional
Economic Communities, Farmers’ Organisations, Private Sector, Civil Society,
specialised agencies and development partners.
Cyriacus Nnaji/
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