Repatriate Africa’s climate-smart wisdom that was suppressed by colonialism.
The urgency of climate change compels us to revisit lost wisdom in the African Agricultural Sector. Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki is African Union Special Envoy for Food Systems observes that extreme weather, erratic rainfall, and rising temperatures threaten the staple crops that dominate global agriculture, necessitating the need to look beyond rice, maize, and wheat—species that account for nearly 50% of the world’s calories but are increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks.
