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  • Publication | 2023
Improving Climate Resilience and Sustainability of Farming and Food Systems: Exploring the Contribution of Agroecology
Global Food and Nutrition Security

The future of agriculture will be shaped by the current challenges that the sector is facing. While progress in agriculture productivity has recently been made, effects of climate change - such as floods, increasing temperatures, erosion of sea banks, increased pest and diseases – have become new additional issues. The parallel session convened by DeSIRA LIFT, FARA and IFAD at the 8th African Agribusiness and Science Week on 6 June 2023 aims to bring together agrifood stakeholders from research, farming organisations and the private sector to discuss how to improve the resilience of agriculture. Climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions are essential to make African food and farming system sustainable. Agroecology is an approach that enables to address several of these challenges.