climate change and Africa's agricultrural future

The deep ignorance about climate change in Nigeria is unsettling giving the enormity of the problem for the populace. This ignorance is not limited to the average man in the street but to senior government officials, high level politicians and even in the academia. To counter this will be one of the first challenges facing the climate change campaigners in the country. At the moment, most governments in Africa are focusing in the funds from the international donors, without realizing (or knowingly)that they have to develop the awareness and the capacity to utilize the funds. This lack of awareness is troubling because if the impacts of climate change happens as predicted, our whole development effort will be wasted. We have to start using the resources - human, material, knowledge - we have to do our own bit without waiting for the donor funds.