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Capacity Building Workshop on Agroecology as a Climate Change Solution
August 30, 2022
Background
The world currently battles climate change and for that there is a growing list of solutions such as climate smart agriculture, sustainable agricultural intensification and carbon capture, carbon offsetting (rather than cutting emissions at source) promoting plantations etc Some of these solutions have dire implications for local communities and ecosystem balance and thus must be discouraged. Research has shown that agriculture and agrarian reforms rooted in agroecological practice and principles help to cool the planet and ensure climate resilience. This is what small-scale farmers and producers have been calling and defending for many millennia. Politics, poor implementation and followup are some of the factors standing in the way of such a transition.
HOMEF has carried out a study on the climate change policies in Nigeria with a view to finding entry points for mainstreaming of Agroecology as a viable solution to the climate catastrophe. This study revealed that there is no policy that directly recognizes agroecology although some elements of it are mentioned in some of the policies. The study recommended a number of policies that can be reviewed for the purpose of mainstreaming agroecology, one of which is the National Agriculture Resilience Framework (NARF).
Workshop Objective
Following that study and building on the significance of Agroecology in our food system and for climate resilience/adaptation HOMEF is organising a capacity building workshop for CSOs to deepen understanding and strengthen advocacy for it’s inclusion in Nigeria’s climate change policy documents.
The workshop is scheduled to hold on Tuesday 30 August 2022 in Abuja.