Ethiopia puts nutrition at the heart of climate action
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sidwaya
Illustrative image · Sami Kofer · Pexels · Licence PexelsEthiopia wants to integrate nutrition, local production and local seeds into its climate action, according to Sintayehu Demissie, a representative of Ethiopia’s ministry responsible for agriculture. These priorities were presented during a panel on climate finance and nutrition security on 9 November in Antalya, Turkey, according to Sidwaya.
Sintayehu Demissie, a representative of Ethiopia’s ministry responsible for agriculture, said the country’s food programme combines local production, child nutrition, local consumption and the use of local seeds. Particular attention is being paid to women’s access to means of production, with women presented as guardians of African food traditions, according to Sidwaya.
For Theo Mitchell, a representative of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), nutrition financing must also support studies, projects and data production on the effects of climate change on food and nutritional status. The general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Dr Million, meanwhile criticised control of food chains which, he said, reduces farmers’ ability to choose what they produce, Sidwaya reports.
The panel on climate finance, food systems transformation and nutrition security was held on 9 November 2026 in Antalya, Turkey, on the sidelines of COP31. COP31 opened in Antalya on the same day, with climate finance among the main topics of discussion.
