Uganda is one of the countries pushing negotiators at the Durban Climate Change summit to include funding for agriculture in addressing climate change.
Uganda is one of the countries pushing negotiators at the Durban Climate Change summit to include funding for agriculture in addressing climate change.
Uganda says agriculture sector is severely being affected by weather patterns like drought and flooding which affect food supply.
The National Planning Authority Chairman, Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa says helping communities affected by climate change requires money for them to acquire better technologies as well as good seeds for better yield.
Dr Mugerwa said that negotiators in the Africa group want developed countries to include agriculture as one of the priority areas in addressing climate change.
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Delegates at the Durban conference are discussing the finalization of $100 billion Green Climate Fund. The fund has been designed to respond to environment-related activities the African Group backed influential agriculture bodies like International Fund for Agriculture Development and the World Bank want the fund to include agriculture.
Dr. Lindiwe Sibanda, the Director of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network said the delegates in Durban must include a fund that will help farmers access farming technologies to modernize African agriculture.
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She says the proposed Green Climate Fund is so far an unfunded pledge to provide poorer countries with around $100 billion annually to adapt to climate change.
Meanwhile, the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) President , Kanayo Nwanze say it isa important that smallholder farmers are enabled to become more resilient to climate change and grow more food .
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change experts meeting in Kampala mid last month warned that yields from rain-fed agriculture could drop by up to half by 2020.
They said in a report that agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries and regions is projected to be severely affected by climate variability and change.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change executive secretary, Christiana Figueres told journalists that some developed countries already provided 30 billion dollars to fund agriculture related activities. Bududa is one of the districts that is benefiting from the fund provided after the mudslides disaster.
