African Climes

Bon! Bienvenue et merci d’avoir cliquer sur mon blog. Comme j’ai promis, c’est le deuxième partie de l’article sur le changement climatique et l’adaptation d’agriculture africaine. Amuse et informe – toi. Adaptation simply means that we have to innovate and come up with ways of living with the present climate change while seeking to stop it from becoming worse. All in all, agriculture must be sustainable. That is, it should be viable and should be something that can be maintained. Here are a few pointers. v Agroforestry is also quite an important way of adapting to climate change and bringing about sustainable development. The idea is really quite simple, you need land to develop but you can’t go around cutting trees neither can you use your land to plant trees instead of crops. So what do you do? You plant trees that are beneficial to you. Fruit trees. Like avocado, mango, apple, coffee, passion fruit trees. Some fast maturing and leafy trees can also be cultivated...

Agriculture is the mainstay of African economies. In Africa it is made up of several subsectors for example, crop farming, rearing livestock, aqua culture, apiculture and others.   60% of Africa’s jobs are in the agricultural sector and about 80% of the income in Africa is derived from agricultural activities. A wheat farm in Kenya - courtesy of agribourse Now, when it comes to climate change, agriculture is both a causative factor as well as a victim. Some facts, first of all. 1)       Africa produces only 4% of greenhouse gas emissions, and this is majorly through land use and forestry. 2)       Of the 10 countries most affected by climate change, 6 of them are in Africa. 3)       However Africa gets only 5% of climate finance. Do you how skewed the situation is? The Horn Of Africa has some of the worst affected countries by climate change -courtesy of agritech blog.uk In Af...

Now, the era we are living in, climate is changing dangerously as a result ofthe discovery and exploitation of coal which started in the year 1750, the beginning of the Industrial Age. In the eighties, it was noticed that global climate was changing that is was warming up. So in the year 1988 Anno Domino, the powers that be decided to do something appropriate to show that they are doing something. So the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization. This is the body tasked with finding scientific, technical evidence of climate change, making predictions etc. It is made up of scientists who know their stuff. They have no other goal or purpose apart from scientificallyexamining the issue of climate change and also making predictions on adaptation and mitigation. The reason why the IPCC is so important is because it provides actual data with which the rest of us can work with. In...