The U.S. State Department has launched a new initiative to bolster support for African countries to build more climate-resilient food systems.
Known as the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, it will focus on mapping soils to provide farmers more information on how to increase productivity with their soil type, as well as help identify crops that will thrive in Africa’s five subregions as climate change has increasingly adverse impacts on agriculture.
“There is no such thing as food security or good nutrition without these two fundamental elements,” U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security Cary Fowler said during the Wednesday announcement in Washington.