NGOs, OXFAM train women on agriculture, climate change
By Abigael Joshua
The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), in partnership with OXFAM, have launched a training programme for women on agriculture and climate change.
Dr Michael David, Executive Director of GIFSEP, announced this at a workshop on Female Food Heroes (Ogbonge), Women on Climate Change, and Access to Climate Finance on Tuesday in Abuja.
David noted the importance of the training, saying that female farmers produce much of the food consumed in the country.
“Climate change is affecting how they grow their food. Given the food inflation the country is experiencing, we can attribute climate change as one of the causes of this issue,” David said.
He stressed the need to train farmers to become change agents in their communities and states, enable them to teach others how to build resilience to climate change and implement simple adaptation techniques.
David also called on the Federal Government to support smallholder farmers with interventions that would ensure bumper harvests.
“To achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2030, we must empower small-scale farmers. We need to train more women, not just the ‘Ogbonge’ women, to help our country attain food sovereignty,” he said.
Similarly, Peggy Maimaji, Project Coordinator of Together Against Poverty at OXFAM, stated that the project addresses issues crucial to female farmers, especially the impacts of climate change on farming.
She assured that the project would continue to address issues of access to land and finance, noting that OXFAM has awarded no fewer than 12 women farmers every year since 2012 through the Female Food Hero project.
Monica Maigari, a participant from Kaduna State who was awarded by OXFAM in 2014 for her achievements, praised the NGOs for the training.
Maigari said she had learned how to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
(NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Chijioke Okoronkwo
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