AGRICULTURE and climate change in Africa are like the Siamese twins, inseparable. Whenever the impact of climate change is discussed, its corrosive attack on agriculture and food production systems is always mentioned first.
This is because most African economies are agro-based.
More than 70 percent of the continent's one billion people, or 700 million people, survive by tilling the land or are indirectly dependant on agriculture.
The sector supports 67 percent of jobs in Africa and accounts for 40 percent of the continent's foreign currency earnings.
Recurrent disruptions from climate change manifesting through disasters such as droughts or floods can result in widespread famine and hunger, sometimes death.
Agriculture is key to Africa but the sector remains highly vulnerable to changing climatic conditions. READ MORE
Source: Allafrica.com #IFAMARICA
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