African farmers suffer a problem they did not cause

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

African farmers are suffering a problem they did not cause. The UN Climate Convention states that the "largest share of historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gases has originated in developed countries, per capita emissions in developing countries are relatively low". The Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF), representing over 20 million farmers, declared at the end of their four-day conference that farmers are adversely experiencing the effects of climate change such as crop and livestock losses.

The EAFF, covering Burundi, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, laments that the climate change mechanisms either excluded agriculture or provided insignificant benefits to farmers and pastoralists. According to Philip Kiriro, president of EAFF "the impacts across Africa, and particularly in the agricultural sector, indicate that climate change is proceeding faster than earlier predicated".

Download the pdf-document to read the complete EAFF-declaration on climate change.

 EAFFPositiononClimateChange.pdf