Women’s groups under the aegis of the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change (AWGGCC) at the ongoing African Climate Change conference in Marrakech, Morocco have identified the increase in women’s access to productive resources such as land, credit, transfer and enhancement of indigenous technology as instrumental to transforming Africa’s agriculture.

An Ethiopian farmer at the just-ended fourth edition of the Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-IV) conference says that there is need for more awareness campaigns to educate farmers in the Horn of Africa nation about climate change because some of them say it is a religious punishment.