FAO/UNDP project to help eight countries in climate change adaptation

A four-year joint project of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is expected to help eight developing countries revamp and strengthen their adaptation responses to climate change, reports Ghana Business News.

Martin Frick, Director of FAO’s Climate, Energy and Tenure Division said: “Ministries of agriculture, fisheries and forestry need to be at the table when countries develop and implement domestic policies to address climate change.” FAO said three-quarters of the world’s poor who live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, need a range of climate change adaptation needs from improved crop varieties that can cope with drought, salinity and changing weather conditions to new methods of cultivation and modernized water and irrigation systems.