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Scientists Push For Climate-Friendly Farming Methods

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By The East African

Africa must adopt climate-friendly farming methods to revamp its struggling agriculture and feed its 1.2 billion people.

Scientists and representatives from the civil society told delegates attending a three-day conference in Addis Ababa this past week that conventional agriculture is no longer sustainable as it has ruined the environment and failed to produce enough food.

“The fastest and cheapest way of reversing climate change is through the soil and the strategy is agroecology,” said Dr Million Belay, the coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA).

Agroecology stresses the relationship between plants, animals, humans and the environment within the agricultural system.

It uses cultivation techniques and breeding programmes that do not rely on chemical fertilisers, pesticides or artificial genetic modifications.

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