In a statement after a two-day regional conservation agriculture study tour in held in Harare, Comesa Director of Investment and Private Sector Development, Chungu Mwila, said the study was meant to increase awareness of the significance of Conservation Agriculture among those in policy and decision-making. He said COMESA was in the process of developing a region-wide programme of scalingup the adoption of Conservation Agriculture.
He informed the gathering that Conservation Agriculture was part of a larger programme on climate change initiative whose main components are the unlocking of the Bio-carbon potential of the continents land use, forest and agriculture in sequestering vast quantities of greenhouse gases (GHGs) often blamed for climate change. Conservation Agriculture was an African initiative which presents great opportunities for attracting investment and resources for adaptation in the agricultural sector, he said.