Burkina-Faso: CCAFS hosts High Level Meeting to Discuss Needed Changes In Agriculture

By Staff Writer

OUAGADOUGOU– The CGIAR research program on Climate change, Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS) Program in West Africa will on Thursday, 25 October 2012 be hosting a High level Science – Policy Session to discuss needed changes in Agriculture with Ministries, Farmers organizations, Scientists and NGOS from 15:00 GMT to 17:00 GMT.

The program is carried out through an adaptive “placed-based” research structured around four Themes (Adaptation to progressive climate change, Adaptation through risk management, Pro-poor mitigation and Integration for Decision Making). CCAFS program is initially focusing on three regions – East Africa, West Africa and the Indo‐Gangetic Plains – to carry out its research. In West Africa, CCAFS is presently operating in 5 pilot countries: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal.

Speakers during the meeting will be delegates from  the Burkina Faso Ministry of Research, Ministry of Agriculture, Minister of Livestock, Minister of Environment, CONEDD, Permanent Secretary SP-CPSA, Director INERA, Executive Secretary CNSA.CILSS, WASCAL Competence Center, ROPPA, CORAF/WECARD, INSAH, Commissioner ECOWAS Agriculture/Environment Departments.

In 2011, the CGIAR and the ESSP launched the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program (http://www.ccafs.cgiar.org), a 10 years strategic partnership with the over arching objectives a) to identify and develop pro-poor adaptation and mitigation practices, technologies and policy for food systems, and b) to provide tools and approaches that will ensure cost-effective investments, the inclusion of agriculture in climate change policies and the inclusion of climate issues in agricultural policies, from the sub-national to global levels.