Rebecca Lorenzetti, for NINJA Collaborative Coverage at COP26

This Monday (1st), among several meetings of the COP26 program, in Glasgow, one of them focused on women’s emergencies in the face of the advance of the climate crisis. The vulnerable situation of African women was strongly addressed at the event entitled “An Intergenerational Conversation between Women and Youth in the Arena of Climate Change and Agriculture”, held by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Gambian women in Africa reported on agrarian conflicts and the serious impacts on their lives caused by climate change. Currently, the country depends on agriculture and this productive activity is headed by women of different ages. The high male mortality rate due to violence and other factors, therefore, obliges them to guarantee their families’ livelihoods.

They called for social assistance and said they urgently need funding for sustainable agriculture projects that unite environmental preservation systems. Thus, they hope to guarantee social security for their families and continue to work for the healing of the planet.

This same week, the United Nations (UN) announced that staple food crops could decrease by at least 80% by 2050 in eight African countries. The data are from the report released by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Ifad..

The document explains that the reductions, caused by the increase in global temperature, could have a catastrophic impact, increasing poverty and limiting the availability of food. Furthermore, it emphasizes that the need for funding to help vulnerable farmers in adapting their crops is urgent.

Climate crisis

The event promoted this conversation with youth representatives at both the political and grassroots levels, with experts on climate, agriculture and gender.  Joined the dialogue farming women experts  being trained to become UNFCCC  negotiators  and the  young international activists  with the purpose of  sharing their experiences of building resilience to climate change as they work to heal the planet.

This was the key point  discussed with concern: climate change mainly affects the younger generation, not only because the planet is much closer to collapse than in previous generations, but also because of the lack of hope that has even caused emotional disorders and crises. existentials in the new generation.  

If countries and world leaders do not understand the importance of financially supporting the young people  who are struggling for  world change, we run the risk of finding in the future, a generation even less hopeful and more adept at destructive ways of life.

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