IGAD, FAO and WMO join forces to stave off impacts of climate change on agriculture
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have held the inception workshop for a new project that aims to buttress the capacities of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to adapt and be more resilient to the weather variability and climate change. With USD 6.8 million funding from the Adaptation Fund, the three-year program called, “Agricultural Climate Resilience Enhancement Initiative (ACREI),” will develop the capacities of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, who are extremely vulnerable to weather variability and climate change, to understand and appropriately use climate information to be more resilient to the negative impacts of climate change.
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