Abdoulaye Baldé, Senegal’s Minister of Environment was one of the most active ministers who took part in the successful deliberation of CCDA-IV, which was held from 8 - 10 October in Marrakech Morocco. At the end of the meeting, Mr Baldé shared with the ClimDev-Africa Reporting Team his views on the Conference, his thoughts about food self-sufficiency in Senegal and for ClimDev-Africa, the Pan-African initiative, which organized Africa's largest event on climate change.