COP15 on desertification and land degradation continues in Abidjan. As degraded land expands and the population of the plant continues to grow, how can practices be changed to deal with the consequences of climate change, such as water scarcity and reduced agricultural yields? Some representatives of the peasant world came to raise their voices to remind the leaders of this world of the urgency.
With our Abidjan correspondent, Pierre Pinto
Mauricette Bly is the head of a cooperative of around a hundred Bangolo women, in Gumon, a wooded region in the west of the Ivory Coast. A cooperative which operates no less than 500 hectares of land where it mainly grows food products intended for food. Problem: In recent years, yields have dropped due to drought.