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The Rethink Climate Action Initiative is a beacon of hope, dedicated to combating the interconnected challenges of food insecurity, climate change, ecosystem degradation, and poverty across Africa.

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The power of Authenticity!

Youth are game changers

Amidst #COVID-19 our coordinator Dr. Richard Munang has wished all #InnovativeVolunteers across the global a happy Easter. However as you stay home remember to #StayAtHome #WashYourHands with clean water and soap. #InnovativeVolunteerism #EBAFOSA https://t.co/ClFAceBHoQ

Climate Change and COVID-19

As #COVID19 rages, let us remember that as sad as this has been, it will come and go. #climatechange will continue to overwhelm our community as we saw with #cycloneIdai, droughts and #locust attacks that have hit #Africa in less than a year. Let us be courageous foster courage n kindness https://t.co/SuFU6pCNal

#EBAFOSA president Mr. Patrick Luganda explaining why youth must contribute to the development agenda

#EBAFOSA president Mr. Patrick Luganda explaining why youth must contribute to the development agenda and how Africa Youth Agro-industrilisation Academy (#AYAIAcademy) leveraged on #BugandaKingdom structures to empower youth in Buganda kingdom to achieve the #SDGs #InnovativeVolunteerism

EBAFOSA Uganda driving climate action in Africa

The #youth provide Africa with the best chance at shaping an appropriate value system that is critical to drive #ClimateAction solutions.Through the guidance of Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food Security in Africa (EBAFOSA), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established Africa Agro-Industrisation Academy (#AYAIAcademy) to retool and train youth in Uganda. #AYAIAcademy has retooled youth to fabricate solar dryers to reduce post harvest losses and improve the cassava value chain.

Happy International women's day.

“If you educate a man, you educate one individual, if you educate a woman, you educate a family”. This African proverb encapsulates the important role, that women have played and continue to play in global development. #InnovativeVolunteerism #HappyWomensDay2020 #IWD2020 https://t.co/VipraKWdM9

Africa's agricultural value chain

#Africa's challenges are not exotic or unsolvable. Two words skills retooling vvalue addition is the only way to elevate Africa's agricultural industry and stabilize food security. #ClimateAction is about people and planet #EBAFOSA #InnovativeVolunteerism

Leveraging on Climate Action

Leveraging #ClimateAction, #SDG13, to unlock multiple sustainable development goals (#SDGs). #Uganda and United Nations Environment Programme( #UNEP) collaborate, building on established work, to support elaboration of #Uganda Nationally Determined Contributions ( #NDCs) into investment plans capable of attracting innovative finance through the UNEP #NDCsAction project #lowEmissionsDevelopment

Nationally Determined Contributions UNEP Climate Action Project brings added value novelty in creating a coordination mechanism that brings together state and non state actors to drive policies and ground actions.

Earlier today a delegation from United Nations Environment Programme led by Dr. Richard Munang discussed with Ministry of Water and Environment and Uganda Climate Change Department on how #ClimateAction #NDCs implementation through the UNEP and International Climate Initiative (IKI) supported #NDCActionProject will enhance #NDCs implementation from an investment perspective and socioeconomic opportunity. According to Richard, the implementation of #ClimateAction Nationally determined contributions (#NDCs) cannot be siloed to socioeconomic realities. The UNEP #NDCActionProject brings added value novelty in creating a coordination mechanism that brings together state and non state actors to drive policies and ground actions.

Welcome innovative volunteerism to drive climate action

Sustainability of any investment is attached to people passionate about solving challenges NOT money. Money becomes a consequence. If money is the end goal, one has failed even before starting.Welcome #InnovativeVolunteerism and dance to drive #ClimateAction #EBAFOSA www.ebafosa.org

EBAFOSA Uganda

#Africa produces what it doesn't consume & consumes what it doesn't produce. What a paradox? Substituting imports with #ClimateAction value added local produce. EBAFOSA is developing the cassava value chain and it has managed to trained two sets of women groups I.e Kyaggwe and Busiro women groups. #InnovativeVolunteerism

Africa is a negligible emitter yet most vulnerable, disproportionately suffering the brunt of the #ChangingClimate. How do we square these two aspects? Listen in as Dr. Richard Munang the UNEP Africa Climate Change coordinator shades light on this issue He uses this African Proverb that "If you close eyes to facts, you learn through accidents". The supercharging effect of #climateChange on extreme events is apparent. #ClimateEmergency

Leveraging on #ClimateAction through Solar Dryers Fabrication to drive Youth employment “It is the young trees that make up the forest”. Considering that a skilled person is 4 times the value of produced capital and 15times the value of natural capital, this African proverb reminds us that Africa’s youthful population at 60%, which is 720million people, represent the continent’s greatest asset. However, unemployment among these youth is unbearable. Of the continents work ready youth, only one in six, a minority of about 16%, is in wage employment. A third, or about 30% are vulnerably employed while another one-third are unemployed and discouraged. While 10 to 12 million youth enter the workforce each year, only 3.1 million jobs are created, leaving vast numbers of youth unemployed. Under current trends, this sorry state of affairs will only escalate and by 2025, 263million young people will lack an economic stake in Africa’s economy. In Kenya, the economy needs to create at least 900,000 jobs annually between now and 2025 to absorb the high number of youths joining the job market. The consequences of this unemployment to the continent are pervasive and severe. #EBAFOSA #InnovativeVolunteerism www.ebafosa.org

Thank you #InnovativeVolunteerism #youth actors across the entire continent and the world for your sacrifices in driving #ClimateAction. We appreciate you. You are our unsung heroines and heroes. You are changing the narrative of how #ClimateAction should be implemented. #EBAFOSA www.ebafosa.org

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Food insecurity: UN’s EBAFOSA to feed 240 million hungry Africans

To combat food insecurity, climate change, ecosystems degradation and poverty reduction, the United Nation (UN) has launched the Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly (EBAFOSA), in Nigeria.

According to the UN, about 240 million people in the continent go to bed hungry; while malnutrition is affecting nearly 200 million people and is the cause of death for over 50 per cent of children below five years.

The UNEP said that while the continent imports food worth $35 billion annually, it losses approximately $48 billion due to post harvest losses; adding that in Nigeria, while 75 per cent of tomatoes harvested yearly are being wasted, the government spends about $1 billion importing tomato paste.

With the launch on Friday in Abuja, Nigeria has successfully joined other countries in the world to check mate the effect of global food crisis.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, who was present at the event, alongside the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma and the Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, said the objective of EBAFOSA keys into two of the six main pillars of the current administration’s development policy thrust and priority programmes which are economic and environmental sectors.

He pointed out that among the objective of the government was to ensure food, security, optimal nutritional status and increase value of agricultural export under its real sector and agricultural reforms.

Earlier in his key note address, Dr Richard Munang, UNEP Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator, who said Nigeria is a country that is leading the way in environmental and agricultural development in Africa, added that “Agriculturally speaking, Africa holds 65 per cent of the world’s arable land and 10% of internal renewable fresh water sources. Africa’s agro-value chain is projected to be worth an estimated USD 1trillion by 2030. However, amidst this impressive postulation, the reality on the ground is appalling.

“Poverty levels have hardly shifted. Almost one in every two Africans lives in extreme poverty and under status quo, it is projected that most of the world’s poor will be living in Africa by 2030. As we speak, 240 million people in the continent go to bed hungry.

“Malnutrition is high affecting nearly 200 million people and is the cause of death for over 50 per cent of children below five years. While the continent imports food worth $35 billion annually, it losses approximately $48 billion due to post harvest losses.”

He explained that in Nigeria, while 75 per cent of tomatoes harvested yearly are being wasted, the government spends about $1 billion importing tomato paste.

“Reversing these losses, thorough value addition, will essentially eliminate the need for imports, enhance food security and inject $35 billion back to the continents economy, or in the case of Nigeria, $1 billion, for re-investment to enhance inclusive growth without increasing production.”