Ahead of the UN climate change conference COP26, climate researchers will weigh in on the hopes of the continent during a media webinar on Friday 29 October 2021.
Agricultural commercialisation has long been considered a path out of poverty for farmers across Africa, as elsewhere in the global South; it is also increasingly seen as a means to strengthen farmers’ resilience to climate change.
Studies carried out in the semi-arid Singida Region of central Tanzania and in Mazowe, Zimbabwe asked how farm-level commercialisation decisions affect current, as well as future resilience to climate change. The findings reinforce a message that farmers are vulnerable to climate change but also have tremendous capacity.
For farmers’ commercialisation pathways to be able to adapt and thrive, however, farmers need to be supported. This in turn gives clear messages ahead of COP26.
Among the topics to be discussed include:
- What hopes for Africa in COP26?
- How to bring in voices of most vulnerable that might not be heard in COP26?
- Improving wider sustainable food systems in Africa; improving climate science to inform farm level decision-making ·
- Agricultural commercialisation as a means to strengthen farmers’ resilience in the face of climate change.
- The ‘decade for action’ in ensuring no one and no place is left behind in a sustainable development future. Will it really happen?
Below are the details:
WHAT: Climate change media webinar organised by the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme as part of the Future Agricultures Consortium.
When: 1100-1200 GMT, Friday October 29, 2021
WHO:
- Khamaldin Mutambazi-Associate Professor, Sokoine University of Agriculture
- Toendepi Shonhe: Research fellow and lecturer, University of South Africa
- Andrew Newsham: Academic Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
- Gideon Boniface: Agricultural Economist, independent researcher, Morogoro Tanzania
- Tsitsidzashe Bvute: PhD Student, University of Johannesburg
To join virtually: Journalists can join the press briefing virtually through this link or watch on https://www.facebook.com/futureagricultures
