EBAFOSA – Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food
Security Assembly – is poised to serve as a platform to foster collaboration in
combating food insecurity, climate change, ecosystems degradation and poverty
in the country.
Food systems serve as the engine and strategic thrust for
accelerating the achievement of Ghana’s socioeconomic priorities, creating
wealth opportunities for enhanced incomes and jobs.
The resilience day will look at meeting Ghana’s climate
resilience goals as captured in the country’s Nationally Determined
Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC).
“Ghana is on track to build green and sustainable Economy,”
said
Dr. John Boateng, President of EBAFOSA–Ghana. “Everybody else,
governmental, non-governmental, youth groups and the private sector and
corporate world are all doing their part. We need to have a big plan though as
a nation that coordinates and synchronizes all efforts into an impactful
action. There must be a strategy in place to monitor and evaluate progress we
make and correct wrong decisions”.
EBAFOSA is an all-inclusive pan-African policy
framework which uses innovative approaches that decentralize the development and
application of policy solutions in order to achieve participation of key
stakeholders.
The National Day of Resilience will bring together
agriculture and food security practitioners and stakeholders from the
government and public sectors, educational and research institutions, non-governmental
and intergovernmental organizations, and civil society and faith-based
organizations.
Under the theme “Making Africa Work through EBAFOSA
and Power of Innovative Volunteerism”, stakeholders will leverage on the Day to
achieve the end goal of wealth creation and climate resilience building.
According to Dr. Boateng, the
young people are being targeted to take the lead in transformative solutions to
drive the agro-industrialization efforts of EBAFOSA Ghana and to accelerate
Africa's progress.
“The youth need to be engaged to lead in creating the
income opportunities that they need. It is for this reason that in the practice
of Innovative Volunteerism, youth, who are the majority, should likewise be
intrinsically engaged, to lead actions. Their energy and innovativeness should
be leveraged,” he said.
Interest groups and individuals are expected to collaborate
in developing and implementing policy solutions to upscale ecosystem-based adaptation-driven
agriculture and its value chain improvements toward ensuring sustainable
inclusive growth in Ghana.
By Kofi Adu Domfeh
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