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AFRICAN ACTION ON WOMEN, FOOD & CLIMATE
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organisations involved in the campaign include: Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA), African Institute of Agrarian Studies (AIAS), Africa Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC), Climate Action Network Uganda (CAN-U), Economic Justice Network
of FOCCISA (EJN), East and Southern African Farmers Forum (ESAFF), Natural Justice, Oxfam, Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA), Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), SADC-Council of NGOs, and Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ).
Climate change is the single biggest threat to fighting hunger. For many of us, it means lower quality food, less choice, and higher food prices. For women food producers, it means investing their labour, time and money in vain. It means dragging thousands into poverty and could set back the fight against hunger by several decades.
For this reason, different organizations from across the continent have partnered to champion an Africa-wide campaign. It targets the issue of climate change affecting our ability to get enough to eat. The campaign is focused on strengthening women food producers and achieving resilience in communities to the effects of climate change.
The overall aim of the campaign is that “African governments and the world must finance and invest in flexible and long-term funding mechanisms for climate resilience that promotes the rights of small scale women producers and vulnerable communities to address food security by 2020.”
13 June was the kick off for the campaign which will continue to run over a ten-month period with key moments on World Food Day in October, The COP Climate Negotiations in Paris in December and International Women’s Day in March.
This year, African governments are prioritising women’s empowerment. At the same time, at the Paris climate talks in December governments will determine the fate of Africa and future generations. Governments have the power to take bold action to fix the damage that’s already been done. Demand action now for our children and future generations.
Get informed and sign the petition - African Leaders Must Act on Women Food Climate - here: http://womenfoodclimate.org/
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The YUNGA team
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