The first Africa Climate Summit is more than a curtain-raiser for COP28 in December. Africa, the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent (after Asia) needs to ensure that the voices of the people occupying 20% of the world’s land are heard.
And Ripple Effect has a seat at the table.
The theme for this first Africa summit is “Driving Green Growth and Climate Finance Solutions for Africa and the World”.
Increasing food production is a key concern for African governments. Global food systems account for more than a quarter of global GHG emissions (Our World in Data 2019), the effects of which are being experienced most acutely by African farmers.
Farmers' experience must drive these decisions
Ripple Effect is helping to ensure that the voices of the people who produce of 80% of sub-Saharan Africa’s food are heard. They are the smallholder farmers.
Our address by our Farm Systems and Sustainability Coordinator, Meshark Sikuku will challenge a Big Biotech business model is centred on our passionate advocacy for sustainable agriculture. Meshark will be presenting on our farmer-focused, highly effective and sustainable “Agroecological solutions to climate resilience”.
We will be sharing our platform with the Kenya Climate Innovation Centre who will present solutions for incubating green business growth.
Ripple Effect to host a side event
Deals worth millions of dollars are expected to be struck during the summit, organisers have said.
Ripple Effect has been invited to host one of the coveted side events at the three-day summit alongside event presenters including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, national governments, the Rockefeller Foundation, McKinsey, USAID, Syngenta and the African Minerals Development Center.
In the context of the four-fifths of African food produced on landholdings of less than 2ha, Ripple Effect will advocate for our affordable, ecologically sustainable Agroecological Climate-Positive Approach (ACPA).
Low-tech agricultural solutions
The impact of global agriculture on greenhouse gas emissions is “a problem for which we don’t yet have viable technological solutions,” says Dr Hannah Ritchie from Our World In Data.
Which is why the sustainable, low-tech agroecological solutions advocated by Ripple Effect are essential. Meeting the food needs of the African continent at the expense of accelerated climate crisis, ecological collapse and catastrophic loss of biodiversity.
Fanaye Falaha, Wolayita, Ethiopia
Please talk to us about our essential climate resilience work:
Meshark Sikuku: Farm Systems and Sustainability Coordinator, Ripple Effect
+254727781220
Donnah Macharia: Business Development Manager, Ripple Effect
donnah.macharia@rippleeffect.org
+254726353061
Winnifred Mailu: Head of Programmes Support, Ripple Effect
winnifred.mailu@rippleeffect.org
+254722856783
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