{"id":4532,"date":"2019-08-14T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"greater-resilience-needed-for-african-food-security-in-the-face-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/14\/greater-resilience-needed-for-african-food-security-in-the-face-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Resilience Needed For African Food Security In The Face Of Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By FAO<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resilience must be boosted in Africa in\nresponse to climate change, according to participants at the high-level&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africafoodsecurity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue<\/a>&nbsp;hosted by the Government of Rwanda in\nKigali (5-6 August), in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization\nof the United Nations, the African Union Commission, the African Development\nBank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Bank.<br>\n<br>\n&#8220;Farmers have always been innovators. What\nthey need are policies that protect them and increase their resilience to\nclimate change. They need access to information, technology, and investment,\nand they should be brought to the conversation on innovation,&#8221; FAO&#8217;s\nDeputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo said.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nAfrica&#8217;s food and agriculture sectors are among\nthe most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. Small-holder\nfarmers, small entrepreneurs, and their families, whose livelihoods depend on\nrain-fed agriculture, are most threatened by climate change. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/1204149\/icode\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FAO Resilience must be boosted in Africa in response to climate change, according to participants at the high-level&nbsp;Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue&nbsp;hosted by the Government of Rwanda in Kigali&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}