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2 | ASNS NEWS Oct - Nov | 2018 PACJA, UNECA host FCPF meet Agriiculture is on agenda, CSOs say Mr Munoru, Forester The Pan African climate justice Alliance (PACJA) jointly with UNECA hosted the Africa FCPF regional exchange workshop in Nairobi. The workshop was held back-to-back with the seventh Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-VII). The workshop was aimed at facilitating regional exchange to encourage first-hand learning and sharing of experiences from civil society and forest dependent IPs engagement in REDD+ processes, and from the Capacity Building Project being implemented by PACJA and MPIDO. The project under the Forest carbon partnership Facility aims at strengthening the knowledge of African Civil Societies, Local Communities and forest dependent Indigenous Peoples on REDD+. The workshop brought together over 50 participants drawn from all the 18 FCPF countries namely; Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda. Mr Mithika, CEO, PACJA Agriculture is one of the main source of livelihood and income in Africa. Additionally, agriculture is central to food security and unlocking youth entrance to job market. Women are the majority of the producers. When holistic analysis of the sector is done, reality of climate change cannot be ignored in Africa. Agricultural investment is a core issue that cannot be separated from land as a resource. For effective agricultural production and practices, land is a vital resource, and access to it is important in production and in building resilient communities that tackle climate change. “Agriculture is central to food security and in unlocking youth entrance to the job market while land is at the core of it, and access to land is important in production” Mithika Mwendwa the executive director PACJA “When discussing climate change, land is a factor of production with the majority of the producers are women” OXFAMs position. Food is grown on land, rivers flow on land. Food is about land. Without food there is insecurity. Without food you will bend low and your voice will not be heard” Ejim Lovelyn “Agriculture can half poverty way better than other sectors including oil and gas. This is because agriculture includes both women and youth” Joel Mzinga
Sep - Oct | 2018 ASNS NEWS | 3 CCDA in Kenya cont from Page 1 From page 1 has increased considerably over time warning that future warming impacts are likely to cause wide fluctuations in thermal and precipitation dynamics. Responding to the current and future impacts of climate change, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change submitted an intended nationally determined contributions (INDC’s)as the new global climate governance framework to limit the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2oC above pre-industrial levels. The INDC’s forms part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, on which the global climate actions will be built after 2020. As of June 2018, of the 54 African countries signatories to the Paris Agreement, 44 had submitted their nationally determined contributions to the Framework Convention. The INDC’s are imperative in ensuring that African countries re-exam- Participants keenly follow the opening ceremony at the CCDA 7 conference that took place in Nairobi Kenya in Ocober. ine their options under the changing global political landscape to effectively promote climate resilience and low carbon emission as outlined in Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want and the Paris Agreement. Translating NDC’s into concrete actions, however, requires, among other things, implementation plans that prioritize specific sectoral climate actions and predictable finance flows, sustained capacity-building and the transfer of relevant technologies from developed countries. This, in turn, calls for serious dialogue and interaction between policymakers, scientists and researchers, as well as other stakeholders, to support the translation of the nationally determined contributions into action plans and programmes. The gathering built on the sixth Conference, which focused on understanding the implementation implications, challenges and opportunities of the Paris Agreement in the context of Africa’s development priorities prior to it coming into effect on 4 November 2016. In keeping with the Conference’s founding philosophy, the seventh meeting was intended to facilitate sciencepractice-policy dialogue. Three themes guided the dialogue: advancing the implementation of the nationally determined contributions in Africa, the role of climate information and services in support of those contributions and climate finance for them. CHECK AFRICA SCIENCE NEWS SERVICE https://africasciencenews.com/
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