Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has hailed the breakthrough in the climate
change agreement reached upon at the COP21 which held in Paris, reports NaijaAgroNet.
This is
coming as FAO Director-General José Graziano
da Silva, applauded the promise to scale up funding for agriculture.
"For the first time ever, food
security features in a global climate change accord," he said, stressing that
the Paris Agreement often dubbed COP21, recognized "the fundamental
priority of safeguarding food security and ending hunger, and the particular
vulnerabilities of food production systems to the impacts of climate change."
According to him, this underlines
the need to "increase the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of
climate change and foster climate resilience … in a manner that does not
threaten food production."
He further said that this is a game
changer for the 800 million people still suffering from chronic hunger, and for
80 per cent of the world's poor who live in rural areas and earn income and
feed their families from agriculture sectors.
“By including food security, the international
community fully acknowledged that urgent attention is needed to preserve the
well-being and future of those who are on the front line of climate change
threats," Graziano da Silva said.
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