Canada must commit its fair share of climate finance to help the world’s must vulnerable

The world’s poorest one billion people absorb 80 per cent of climate change impacts, despite being responsible for only three per cent of global greenhouse emissions.

Agness Manamba and Imelda Simon show how they have prepared their land using conservation agriculture, training to help them adapt to a changing climate. Photograph courtesy of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Opinion

BY NAOMI JOHNSON

January 17, 2019

When I met Agness Mamamba and Imelda Simon in their adjoining fields in Tanzania, they told me of the erratic rainfall affecting their crops. Now middle-aged, these women have been farming since they were children. They have noticed that rains today are coming later and are no longer consistent thro...

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