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African policy to end hunger silent on climate risk
by Baraka Rateng’
Speed read
- The Africa Union’s Malabo Declaration aims to end hunger by 2025
- A new report says it does not pay attention the risks of climate change
- Experts call for African nations to invest in climate risks knowledge creation
The African Union’s Malabo Declaration adopted in 2014 to double agricultural productivity and end hunger by 2025 underestimated the risk that climate change will pose, a report says.
The declaration failed to consider investing in Africa’s scientific capacity to combat climate threats, according to the report, which was produced by the UK-based Agriculture for Impact, and launched in Rwanda this month (14 June).
“Food security and agricultural development policies in Africa will fail if they are not climate-smart”, says Gordon Conway, director of Agriculture for Impact and chair of the Montpellier Panel, which is…
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