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Agriculture experts have advocated “smart farming practices” to combat climate change, improve productivity and enhance food security in the country.They noted that if climate change challenges were not nipped in the bud, more than 52 per cent of the country’s agricultural production would be threatened by 2050.
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Experts say ‘Climate change may increase threat of malaria in CAR region’ - NaijaAgroNet
Experts have said that climate change among other dangers, are capable of increasing threats of malaria in the Central African regions, reports NaijaAgroNet.
According to a new report issued at an RBM Partnership to End Malaria conference in Abuja Tuesday, participating experts hanged their position on the recent survey, saying “surveillance and programme delivery need to improve to drive progress.”
Unlike countries previously surveyed in West, East and Southern Africa in early 2018, Central African respondents saw climate change as more of a threat. One respondent in Rwanda worried that malaria was creeping up into highland regions which had previously been free of the disease, and others discussed how changing rainfall patterns could have an impact on mosquito breeding seasons.
More domestic and international funding was also cited as critical, with respondents from Cameroon, DRC, and Republic of Congo saying more support is needed. Earlier this month, at the recent Replenishment conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, world leaders increased funding for programmes addressing these diseases with pledges totaling $14 billion for the period 2020-2023, meeting the Global Fund’s funding target. Rwanda pledged $2.5 million, DRC, Congo and Cameroon also made domestic resource pledges of $6 million, $5.5 million and $5 million, respectively.
Dr Richard Nchabi Kamwi, Ambassador for the Elimination 8 countries and a co-chair of the study, said: “Maintaining momentum against malaria requires strong political leadership, resilient health systems and securing additional resources. The pledges made at the recent Global Fund replenishment are heartening signs that critical resources are forthcoming.” Dr Kamwi continued:
“It’s also important that Cameroon and DRC have been identified by the World Health Organization and RBM Partnership as “high burden to high impact” (HBHI) countries, ensuring these countries will benefit from increased attention and investment from the international community.” The other study co-chair is Professor Bob Snow, KEMRI-Wellcome-University of Oxford Collaborative Programme in Kenya.
HBHI is an initiative supported by the RBM Partnership to End Malaria and the World Health Organization to build international support and country-led responses to reignite the pace of progress in the global malaria fight. Respondents associated with malaria control programmes in the two HBHI countries in the study were aware of the strategy and believed that with sufficient resources it would be highly beneficial.
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According to a new report issued at an RBM Partnership to End Malaria conference in Abuja Tuesday, participating experts hanged their position on the recent survey, saying “surveillance and programme delivery need to improve to drive progress.”
Unlike countries previously surveyed in West, East and Southern Africa in early 2018, Central African respondents saw climate change as more of a threat. One respondent in Rwanda worried that malaria was creeping up into highland regions which had previously been free of the disease, and others discussed how changing rainfall patterns could have an impact on mosquito breeding seasons.
More domestic and international funding was also cited as critical, with respondents from Cameroon, DRC, and Republic of Congo saying more support is needed. Earlier this month, at the recent Replenishment conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, world leaders increased funding for programmes addressing these diseases with pledges totaling $14 billion for the period 2020-2023, meeting the Global Fund’s funding target. Rwanda pledged $2.5 million, DRC, Congo and Cameroon also made domestic resource pledges of $6 million, $5.5 million and $5 million, respectively.
Dr Richard Nchabi Kamwi, Ambassador for the Elimination 8 countries and a co-chair of the study, said: “Maintaining momentum against malaria requires strong political leadership, resilient health systems and securing additional resources. The pledges made at the recent Global Fund replenishment are heartening signs that critical resources are forthcoming.” Dr Kamwi continued:
“It’s also important that Cameroon and DRC have been identified by the World Health Organization and RBM Partnership as “high burden to high impact” (HBHI) countries, ensuring these countries will benefit from increased attention and investment from the international community.” The other study co-chair is Professor Bob Snow, KEMRI-Wellcome-University of Oxford Collaborative Programme in Kenya.
HBHI is an initiative supported by the RBM Partnership to End Malaria and the World Health Organization to build international support and country-led responses to reignite the pace of progress in the global malaria fight. Respondents associated with malaria control programmes in the two HBHI countries in the study were aware of the strategy and believed that with sufficient resources it would be highly beneficial.
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Experts say climate change may cause decline in nutrients
Experts have raised alarming over the global effects of
climate change to food which may lead to loss of nutritional content of some
foods, such as declining zinc, iron and protein counts in staple cereals, and
trigger new health issues, including diarrhoea for humans and an array of
transboundary animal diseases, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Experts at the Food and Agriculture Organisation, beyond
2030, scientific evidence has shown negative pressures on food production will
be increasingly felt everywhere. Until then, adverse impacts of higher
temperatures are sharply skewed towards developing countries, pointing to
dimmer prospects for their food self-sufficiency.
They said that helping smallholders adapt to climate change
risks is critical for global poverty reduction and food security.
Close attention, FAO experts said, should be paid to
removing obstacles they may face and fostering an enabling environment for
individual, joint and collective action.
Further, FAO urged policy makers to identify and remove such
barriers, stressing that these obstacles can include input subsidies that
promote unsustainable farming practices, poorly aligned incentives and
inadequate access to markets, credit, extension services and social protection
programmes, and often disadvantage women, who make up to 43 percent of the
agricultural labour force.
The report stresses that more climate finance is needed to
fund developing countries' actions on climate change. International public finance for climate
change adaptation and mitigation is growing and, while still relatively small,
can act as a catalyst to leverage larger flows of public and private
investments. More climate finance needs to flow to sustainable agriculture,
fisheries and forestry to fund the large-scale transformation and the
development of climate-smart food production systems. Adaptation and mitigation
of climate change must occur in tandem.
Without action, agriculture will continue to be a major
contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. But by adopting climate-smart
practices and increasing the capacity of soils and forests to sequester carbon,
emissions can be reduced while stepping up food production to feed the world's
growing population, the report said. Food systems can further contribute by
minimizing food losses and waste, as well as by promoting healthier diets that
also leave a lighter environmental footprint.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
NEPAD says Africa needs transformative adaptation to climate change
For the efforts of most countries in Africa are making to
highlight the impacts of climate on agriculture to effectively touch the growth
of agriculture on the continent, there should be transformative adaptation to
climate change, reports NaijaAgroNet.
NEPAD Agency’s Director of Programme, Mrs Estherine
Fotabong, made this call at the 2nd Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance
Forum ongoing in Nairobi, Kenya.
She noted that despite these efforts, gaps and disconnects
still exist between climate change impacts and adaptation efforts.
These gaps, she told NaijaAgroNet include absence of plans
and policies that incorporate climate change issues, education on climate
change among communities, and information on outreach programmes.
She highlighted that institutional frameworks for action, drought resistant crop varieties, small
holder water harvesting and supply strategies, as well as strategies for
alleviating poverty that makes people less resilient to climate variability are
also lacking.
“In order to catalyse better adaptation and cope with the
impacts of climate change, the various stakeholders such as governments, NGOs
and civil society, and private sector should work together with communities
proactively. Communities should be fully capacitated in the various areas of
crop management, community mobilisation and empowerment, disaster preparedness
and have access to robust technologies and information such as new crop
varieties that are drought and disease tolerant,” Mrs Fotabong said.
In a related development, a press statement made available to NaijaAgroNet, the Governor of Nairobi City Council, Dr Evans Kidero, it was revealed
that Nairobi makes a profound contribution to urban food consumption in Kenya,
if not in the whole of east Africa.
“Therefore, urban farming is highly promoted for sustainably
increasing agricultural productivity,” he said.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Cousin wants increase support for smallholder farmers
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Cousin, a former supermarket executive and
diplomat, in an interview monitored by NaijaAgroNet,said the damage
caused by climate change, coupled with a lack of development both in
agricultural and economics perpetually keep small-scale farmers on the edge.
She noted for instance that in woefully
underdeveloped nations like four-year-old South Sudan, conflict feeds into that
downward spiral.
"The global community is well aware that
climate change is impacting sub-Saharan Africa. Erratic rains have become more
of a reality for across the entire continent... The vulnerable people around
the world need a strong global response to address the issues of climate change
to ensure that we can minimize the impacts in the future. But today, what we
must do is implement disaster risk mitigation strategies that will support
vulnerable populations…” she said.
70 per cent of the people who are food insecure in the world today, she said, live in rural areas, noting that if this is not addressed the challenges of unproductive agriculture, then, the issue of food security or the issue of hunger cannot be overcome.
“So we must increase the ability of smallholder farmers to scale up their agricultural yields and provide markets for them to sell those yields to ensure that we can create sustainable and durable agricultural value chains that support the food security of families, as well as the economic viability of those families. That is the only way that we are going to make progress," Cousin said.
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