What are the climate change opportunities revealed by the report for Africa?

The IPCC 5AR alludes to many challenges posed by the changing climate, but there are opportunities as well. Do you agree?

wassiehaile's picture

Some of the opportunities I see likely to emanate from climate change in Africa are indicated below as  follows:
The climate challenges will enables African nations to redefine their relationship and unity which will definitely leads to Increased partnership, collaboration and unity  between and among African nations  to tackle this common challenge, inspire African countries to focus  on green growth and development pathways, these  include focus on re-afforestation, rehabilitation of degraded lands, dissemination of conservation agriculture technologies, increased focus on soil and water conservation, encourages African countries to use solar, water and wind energy as electric sources, African countries will pay attention and work on expanision of small and large scale irrigation for agricultural production which in my view is one of the key component of green revolotion to ensure food security in Africa. This will ultimately results in stimulating expansion of business and this in turn leads to create job opportunities, encourage creativity and technology transfer to Africa. The climate challenge will also likely to boost communication and information exchange among African nations which in turn contribute to capacity building among African citizens so that they will contribute to climate change challenges.
Some of the likely challenges likely to face Africa in the face of climate challenge are:
Shortage of financial and technological resources that can be immediately allocated for climate change adaptation and mitigation activities.
-inadequate infrastructure which includes roads, communication channels.
-insufficient data base and information exchange networks.
-shortage of educated professional on diverse aspects of climate change issue
-high and increasing population pressure in Africa.

By wassiehaile

It is obvious that, there are opportunities and challenges:
In a joint effort, International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), have developed the West African Agriculture and Climate Change monographs. It is the first of three monographs on climate change and agriculture, featuring West, Central, and Eastern Africa. The monographs result from a research project headed by IFPRI Senior Researcher Gerald Nelson.
Policy researchers want to improve the quality and accessibility of the information that feeds into this process.
The intention of this monograph project is to help policymakers understand the uncertainties surrounding climate change effects in their countries and give national and regional-level guidance with implications for a range of policy decisions, such as investments in the development of new plant and animal varieties, water management strategies, the role of regional trade policies, and many more policy areas (source: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/new-report-reveals-how-climate-change-will-hit-west-africa#.VGTn68m8Gls).
According to this site, http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6913/20140506/africas-climate-change-hotspots-revealed-in-new-study.htm; writing in the journal Global Change Biology, lead study author Christoph Müller of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), reports that his team found three regions in Africa that will be the most at-risk from overlapping climate change impacts over the next few decades:
(i) Parts of Sudan and Ethiopia, (ii) the Central African nations surrounding Lake Victoria and (iii) the continent's southwest, including parts of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe are considered climate change overlap hotspots.
"These regions are the ones in sub-Saharan Africa where, by the end of the century, a combination of high likelihood and possibly severe climate change impacts hits territories with relatively high population and high poverty rates.

By Fatou Sima

It is obvious that, there are opportunities and challenges:
In a joint effort, International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), have developed the West African Agriculture and Climate Change monographs. It is the first of three monographs on climate change and agriculture, featuring West, Central, and Eastern Africa. The monographs result from a research project headed by IFPRI Senior Researcher Gerald Nelson.
Policy researchers want to improve the quality and accessibility of the information that feeds into this process.
The intention of this monograph project is to help policymakers understand the uncertainties surrounding climate change effects in their countries and give national and regional-level guidance with implications for a range of policy decisions, such as investments in the development of new plant and animal varieties, water management strategies, the role of regional trade policies, and many more policy areas (source: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/new-report-reveals-how-climate-change-will-hit-west-africa#.VGTn68m8Gls).
According to this site, http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6913/20140506/africas-climate-change-hotspots-revealed-in-new-study.htm; writing in the journal Global Change Biology, lead study author Christoph Müller of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), reports that his team found three regions in Africa that will be the most at-risk from overlapping climate change impacts over the next few decades:
(i) Parts of Sudan and Ethiopia, (ii) the Central African nations surrounding Lake Victoria and (iii) the continent's southwest, including parts of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe are considered climate change overlap hotspots.
"These regions are the ones in sub-Saharan Africa where, by the end of the century, a combination of high likelihood and possibly severe climate change impacts hits territories with relatively high population and high poverty rates.

By Fatou Sima

Climate change for Africa are surmountable. The first has to do with the issue of data and especially from the perspective of gendered, however, there are opportunities that through gender disagradated data, this issue can be strengthened. Secondly, the strengthening of the gender working group can serve as hub for information on issues of research, adaptation strategies etc. The need to also strengthen african CSOs would bring wealth of information from the field to policy and decision makers.
There are also opportunities for Africans to mobilize funds from within and then leverage on what would come from outside. This would be an important aspect for the African leaders to show that indeed, they are ready to tackle the menace of climate change.
 

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