Climate, agric experts meet Thursday to discuss smart agriculture practices

By Bisola Adeyemo

Climate, development experts and policymakers have announced plans to strategize ways to adopt Adaptation and Smart Agriculture in the new Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

The experts from Nigeria and across the world will gather on Thursday, May 20, 2021, in a virtual meeting to discuss these strategies.

The webinar, entitled “Adaptation and Smart Agriculture in the new Nigeria’s NDC”, is being organised by the Centre for Climate Change and Development (CCCD), Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (AEFUNAI), Ebonyi State, in partnership with World Resources Institute (WRI).

The webinar is part of a project aimed at injecting independent critical analysis into, and increasing public engagement and awareness, in the revision process of Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) due for submission later this year.

The aim of the webinar, according to the Director of the Centre, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, is for experts across the world to explore different ways in which adaptation and smart agriculture could be properly and effectively integrated and captured in the new Nigeria’s NDC and climate action broadly.

Speaking on the forthcoming webinar to Environews, Prof. Okereke said that the main presentation will draw from “Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture in the new Nigeria’s NDCs”, a commissioned short analytical piece by the Centre for Climate Change and Development as part of the project.

The webinar will feature Dr. Robert Onyeneke of the Department of Agriculture, AE-FUNAI; Prof. Emmanuel Oladipo of the Department of Geography, University of Lagos; and Professor Daniel Gwary, Director, Centre for Arid Zone Studies, University of Maiduguri, as panelists and discussant while Professor Okereke is the host and facilitators.