Agriculture, including forestry and fisheries, is the sector most threatened by climate change. At the same time, the agricultural sectors produce a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The transformation of the agricultural sectors to address climate change for adaptation and mitigation is essential to tackling hunger and poverty and offers considerable benefits and opportunities for preserving natural resources. At the COP21 summit in Paris, countries made unprecedented commitments to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Now, at COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco, we have the opportunity to make significant progress, by making agriculture a major part of the solution.

Da Silva, J. G. (2016, November 10). Sustainable agri deserves center stage at COP22. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A12.