Apr 29, 2014
Q&A: Investment and Research Key to Resilient African Agriculture - Inter Press Service
There is urgent need to increase the proportion of climate finance for adaptation in Africa by increasing public sector budgets for agriculture and explori
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Q&A with Sonja Vermeulen, head of research for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS):
"According to CCAFS’s “Big Facts” website, total costs for adaptation in agriculture have been estimated at seven billion dollars per year up to 2050. However, of the total flows of climate finance across all sectors, estimated at 364 billion dollars in 2011, only five percent went to adaptation activities."