Africa: Repatriate Africa’s Climate-Smart Wisdom That Was Suppressed By Colonialism.

The urgency of climate change in Africa necessitates revisiting lost wisdom in agriculture, with a focus on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and reparations for past injustices. CSA, defined by the World Bank and FAO, emphasizes increasing productivity, enhancing resilience, and reducing emissions to address food security and climate challenges. Restoring African agricultural knowledge, disrupted by colonial interventions, is crucial to sustainably manage landscapes and prioritize traditional crops that are resilient to climate change. Governments, researchers, and investors must support African-led agricultural research, seed policies that promote biodiversity, and resources for smallholder farmers to ensure food security and ecological sustainability in a warming world.

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