Journal of Food Processing & Technology

Optimizing Africas food security for jobs under the changing climate

Global Food Security and Sustainability Conference

September 05-07, 2016 Beijing, China

Richard Munang

United Nations Office, Kenya

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Food Process Technol

Abstract:

The Africa rising cliche has generated a lot of views as well as hope for the millions. This has not only been in the papers but even in debates across the world, the Africa rising mantra has been at the center of this new narrative. At a time, when the continent is ravaged by poverty, ecological degradation, youth bulge with unemployment figures almost hitting 25%, under nutrition and food insecurity, its good to put the rising cliche in perspective of this visible new narrative. With the changing climate, Can this cliche be substantiated as a sustainable rise or not? What needs to be looked into critically? Also coming at a time when the Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly (EBAFOSA) as the first inclusive pan-African policy framework and implementation platform, a solutions space that brings together key stakeholders and actors along the entire EBA driven agriculture value chain, from government & the public sector, the private sector, academia & research, NGOs, CSOs, international organizations and individual publics at country and continental level to forge partnerships aimed at upscaling EBA driven agriculture and its value chains into policy & implementation through a country driven process to ensure food security, climate adaptation, enhanced productivity of ecosystems and link to supply and demand side value chains to create numerous income and job opportunities, especially for the youth who form 60% of the unemployed in Africa. EBFOSA provides the platform, a solutions space where partnerships between these critical stakeholders can be forged to ensure policy uptake and implementation of solutions. Focusing on a keynote on: Optimizing Africaâ??s food security for jobs under the changing climate is a needed urgent imperative.

Biography :

Email: Richard.Munang@unep.org