Across Southern Africa, a changing climate will prompt changes in how herders manage finding forage for their animals.

Africa needs home-grown solutions to its problems, agricultural economist Dr Ponniah Anandajayasekeram said in Windhoek, Namibia Tuesday.

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing on funds from a $22 billion pledge made by the G8.

Worldwide there are less than one million people employed by the big fisheries sector, but it is estimated that the artisanal sector employs 50 million people.

Restrictions on the movement of seeds in the SADC region because of agriculture legislation contributes to food insecurity.

Women farmers are particularly affected by climate change, food insecurity and disaster, so we have to drive gender equality and decrease women’s vulnerability in the sector.

Without agricultural development at the core of Africa’s progress, there will be no development on the continent.

God is not making any new water. It will not rain anymore in the Limpopo Basin.

Farmers could be losing tonnes of crops every harvest just because no one has bothered to tell them …

Delegates at FANRPAN’s annual regional policy dialogue speak to Zenzele Ndebele about livestock and greenhouse gas emissions.

 

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