Climate change will aggravate Africa's food insecurity and poverty, says ECA's Dione

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The press release presents on the climate change will aggravate Africa’s food insecurity and poverty, says ECA's Dione. Calling for a new business approach to African agriculture, ECA’s Director of Food Security and Sustainable Development, Josue Dione, said in Addis Ababa that climate change would aggravate the continent’s food insecurity and poverty in Addis Ababa, 5 March 2008 (ECA). Dr. Dione said higher temperature would reduce soil moisture storage capacity, quality and fertility while the length of growing seasons would be reduced by more than 20 percent in the Sahel by 2020.