In a bid to contribute to solutions to the global challenges of climate change and food security in the country, the Climate Change Action East Africa (CCAEA) and the International University of East Africa (IUEA) have organized a symposium to promote open discussion with in the food production chain systems with a focus of safeguarding communities from hunger.
The expo scheduled to take place 11th – 16th October 2022 at the IUEA, Kampala campus, Kansanga.
The climate adaptation and resilience initiatives which can be enhanced and reinforced in Uganda and East Africa as a region will be high on the agenda at the symposium and expo.
The technologies that will be exhibited will be critical to current practitioners and new entrants to the food chain systems and climate change solution pool.
The symposium theme: “Linking Climate Change To Food Security, Nutrition And Wellbeing” will be unpacked into papers covering; Climate change impacts manifestation and its deliberative impacts on the food systems and society’s wellbeing, Climate changes resilient practices, and indigenous technologies’ responsiveness to food insecurity risks, farmers’ perspectives, Innovative financing for climate change responsive sustainable agricultural practices linked to farming traditions, Technology and innovations in value chains of food systems and Seed preservation and food processing as climate change response strategies.
At the unveiling ceremony of the event,
Finance Minister Hon Matia Kasaija noted that many parts of East Africa in the past year have been experiencing hunger due to acute food shortages.
“The recent images from the Karamoja sub-region in Uganda attest to this. But food distribution logistics and extreme poverty may be the main drivers given the availability of food in the markets and the other parts of the country.”
As CCAEA, the main organizers of the much sought after expo, considers food security in the East Africa region as of the uttermost concern that climate change can dis-equilibrate in the entire EAC region.
Dr. Tom Okia OKurut, the Executive Director, Climate Change Action East Africa said for all the regional countries, adaptation to climate change impacts is the main response strategy given the low emissions from the region.
“However, what is observable is that the sectorial approaches; forests, water, and environment perspectives dominate the discourse Food insecurity linkages to climate change don’t come out prominently and as such, government planning for climate change impact interventions focuses on directly impacted aspects,” Mr. OKurut added
