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The Gambia in collaboration with NACOFAG would host the launching of The Gambia
chapter of the Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly (EBAFOSA).
The
launching is scheduled for Friday, 7 October 2016, at a hotel in Kololi under
the theme: “Re-shaping Gambia food security through EBAFOSA’.
Briefing
the media about the launching, chairman of the organising committee, Alieu
Sowe, said EBAFOSA is the first inclusive pan-African policy framework and
implementation platform.
It
is aimed at bridging gaps to ensure appropriate policies to tackle African
challenges of food and nutrition insecurity, poverty and unemployment, climate
change and environmental degradation.
Mr
Sowe, who doubles as the coordinator of NACOFAG, said the launching is to
promote EBAFOSA among national stakeholders in The Gambia, especially the
government and policymakers, private sector, academia and research,
international organisations, community organisations, civil society, NGOs and
individual citizens.
He
said the launching would galvanise country support for EBAFOSA activities among
the stakeholders in The Gambia.
EBAFOSA
was formed at the 2nd Africa Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food Security
conference organised by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration
with the African Union Commission and partners in July 2015.
The
1,200 delegates in attendance from across Africa unanimously adopted the
Nairobi Action Agenda, which gave birth to the establishment of EBAFOSA as the
continental policy platform to foster and nurture partnership through branch
formation in each African country.
According
to Mr Sowe, EBAFOSA is the first inclusive pan-African policy framework that
provides a platform for all stakeholders in the country to collaborate in
developing and implementing policy solutions to upscale ecosystem-based
adaptation driven agriculture.
He
said EBAFOSA is to promote the use of innovative approaches that decentralises
the development and application of the policy solutions to the grassroots in an
inclusive, participatory way.
Membership
of EBAFOSA is open to all who support ecosystem approaches to development.
