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CLIMATE CHANGE TO DAMAGE FOOD SUPPLIES
Decreased crop yields and other problems on the way for Africa.
Climate change is severely damaging poverty reduction programmes and compromising food security througout Africa, a recent publication reports.
DECREASED CROP YIELDS
The paper, “Climate Change Implications for Food Security and Natural Resources Management in Africa” was presented last week at a conference organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The paper outlined the damage that even a small variance in climactic activity could yield, the numbers were sobering.
The main outcome of unpredictable weather was a reduction in crop yields, a projected 6.9 percent in the case of maize, a staple throughout most of Africa. Larger food insecurity will follow this reduction if current practices are not ameliorated. The effects of climate change are hugely disproportionate, those who have contributed the least to the pollution that occasions these changes will feel it most and the least equipped to cope will be faced with the most challenge and changes.
AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS URGED TO TAKE ACTION
One-Third of all African people live in drought prone areas and six of the continent’s largest cities are costal, both of these areas are seriously at risk if climate change continues at the present rate. Women would be the ones to feel the most effect with their workloads increasing as land and water resources are effected. The report warned that the only way to slow or prevent these effects is if African governments “prioritize and implement measures to develop agriculture and sustainable natural resource management”.
Their mandates:
- Adaptation to climate change through sustainable practices, including the promotion and protection of traditional and local foods and agricultural knowledge.
- Development policies targetting vulnerable groups, particularly women, are needed.
- Promote and build capacity for FAO’s Sustainable Land Management (SLM) initiative in Africa which uses know-how to mitigate the impacts of climate change by integrating land, water, biodiversity and environmental management.
- Strategies to reduce carbon emissions through community afforestation and reforestation projects are required.
This report is a wake-up call about the realities of climate change and should prompt a governmental response that will reduce activities that contribute to climate change. This, however, should be a global concern not a regional one.
