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Climate Change challenges onUrban Agriculture in Africa
Joachim Ibeziako Ezeji
ChiefExecutive Officer RAWDP
www.rawdp.org
 
Introduction:
Around the world, hundreds of millions of men, women and childrenlive in extreme poverty. An understanding of how the poor respond toeconomic crises has become increasingly important.A great many of these poor men and women in urban, rural and peri-urban settings base their livelihoods on ‘informal activities’-----small-scale cropping, livestock rearing, agro-processing and other micro-enterprises.Poverty, caused by circumstances such as unemployment anddwindling household incomes have necessitated the rise of thesevarious small-scale entrepreneurial activities in urban centers aroundthe world, especially the third world.
 
The Informal sector in Africa
Example: Nigeria
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Most populous country in Africa
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Population (est.) = 140million
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Urban population (est.) = 39% (1985);43.5% (2009); 50% (2010) and 65%(2020)
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57.9% of urban labor force is informal
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The informal sector employs two-third of all workers in Nigeria
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Informal economy generates one-third of Gross Domestic Product(GDP) and 90% on new job creations
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(Source> Federal office of statistics,(2004); UNDP, (2006)
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