Small-scale farmers grow up to 70% of the food consumed in low- and middle-income countries. But #ClimateChange is wreaking havoc on their crops and global food systems. It's time to stand with these frontline heroes who are fighting to secure the future of our food ✊🌍
As a Community Development Facilitator, I see firsthand how this statement resonates deeply with the challenges our communities face. Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it's a human issue that directly impacts food security. Extreme weather events, prolonged droughts, and shifting agricultural zones threaten our ability to produce and distribute food effectively. By addressing climate change, we are not only protecting our planet but also ensuring that our communities have the resources they need to thrive and sustain themselves. The fight against climate change is, therefore, a fight against hunger, poverty, and inequality.
This is why it is absolutely crucial to support small-scale farmers and agroecology! Sustainable farming techniques are essential to fight both hunger and climate change.
Makes sense! Now we should act to stop it. How? Not only talking, and talking and talking, but STARTING NOW! Do something and make it happen! All our scientific knowledge written on the papers, it is NOW its time to become THE REAL ONE on the ground. Where is to begin? Let’s take action and identify the components of change, draw a pathway to make its positive impact!.
Time to educate, sensitize and guide on how to conserve, and reclaim the already damaged environment, destroyed forests ,swamps should be reclaimed to help improve and restore the ecosystem hence improving climate to enable a farmer do his or her farming sustainably with less inputs, less damages, less loss to realize improved quality yields
This calls for training and retraining of these small scale farmers on the best farming technique to achieve better yield in this challenging time
You should say if we let Tyrants win, hunger, death, and disease come in. There is no getting around that with policy.
Rabie Abdelatif
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That is why they deserve more support
Former Plant Pathologist, Government of West Bengal, India
4wHow to make agriculture sustainable, resilient and profitable for the small scale farmers? Fundamentally, there are two types of agriculture in the world, monoculture and polyculture. 1. Monoculture (chemical input based, anti-biodiversity agriculture) was introduced by chemical industries during the 1960s, for mechanisation and industrialisation of agriculture for profit maximisation of the input manufacturing industries and for food security of the world. The cost of cultivation of crops in monoculture is very high and uneconomic for small scale farmers. 2. Polyculture (biodiversity based agriculture) is being practiced by the farmers for more than 10,000 years, which indicates it is sustainable and resilient for the small scale farmers. FAO and IFAD should start research on polyculture to make it more profitable for the small scale farmers.