Africa needs about $3 bln a year to adapt farming

The cost of preparing the world’s agriculture to deal with increasing global temperatures will be $7 billion annually, a senior climate change researcher said this week at an African conference designed to push farming up the climate change agenda.

Africa, the world’s poorest continent that is forecast to be the most affected by global warming, should receive 40 percent of that amount, said Gerald Nelson, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).