He made the call at the just concluded 2nd annual ministerial conference of the Adapting African Agriculture Initiative, themed: “Food Security Facing Climate Change”.The 2-day conference, which was held at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Benguerir, Morocco, in partnership with OCP Africa, had representatives of international and regional funding organizations and institutions in attendance.
He said, “the Lake Chad which is bordered by Nigeria, Chad and Cameroun and by proxy, other African countries within the region. We have to see how we can collaborate because this is affecting all the countries within the region. We need to be less territorial in our thinking, so that we do not continue to face this challenge in Africa”.
The high point of the conference was the ministerial declaration on the actions needed to tackle head-on, the issue of adapting African agriculture to climate change. According to them, Tunisia has experienced increased temperatures and 15% drop in rainfall, Central African Republic has witnessed flooding affecting ten thousand families; a situation that hadn’t been experienced in 50 years. Agricultural productivity in Togo has dropped significantly. The annual rains in Somalia currently does not support the crop cycle; Lesotho is battling with draught, delayed summer cropping and diminished surface water.
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