To ensure food secure present, we need to address climate change- WFP

Madam Angela Cespedes

As part of commemorations marking the  the new World Food Programme (WFP) Representative and Country Director, Madam Angela Cespedes, recognised the crucial role of climate change to food, nutrition and agriculture. 

Climate change, she stated, acts as a multiplier of existing threats to food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition. It’s making natural disasters more scarce and difficult to access, affecting hardly agricultural productivity.

In the Islamic Republic of The Gambia, WFP is working in close partnership with several governmental institutions, UN agencies and other development partners to improve food security, nutrition and education to build resilience and minimise the risks of climate change. 

She adds: ‘climate change is one of the main challenges we will all need to address in order to ensure a food secure present and future for our communities’.