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déc 15, 2015

Can the Paris agreement protect poor farmers from climate change? | Reuters


Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows and goats that produce milk, grows trees for fodder, and collects water to irrigate her food crops in a pond filled with tilapia fish.

CGIAR Climate's insight:

This Reuters article cites a new CCAFS analysis which reviews countries' INDCs and their commitment to agriculture.

The article also quotes CCAFS Program Director Bruce Campbell as saying that "climate finance needs to include agriculture as a key sector, and support countries to implement the plans they have laid out".