- Nigeria risks losing all its vegetation by 2039 unless urgent steps are taken to arrest the impending environmental hazard, warned Senior Climate Specialist and County Director of Solidaridad West Africa, Dr. Sam Ogallah.
- Dr Ogalla was speaking at the inauguration of Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) for Sustainable Climate Smart Oil Palm production among communities in Kogi.
Nigeria risks losing all its vegetation by 2039, unless urgent steps are taken to arrest the impending environmental hazard, warned Senior Climate Specialist and County Director of Solidaridad West Africa, Dr. Sam Ogallah. Dr. Ogalla was speaking at the inauguration of the Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) for Sustainable Climate Smart Oil Palm production among communities in Kogi. He observed that unless Nigeria urgently adopts a crop pattern of sustainable climate-smart crops, the country will face serious climate vulnerability in less than 20 years. The setting up of the Multi-Stakeholder Platform for sustainable climate Smart Oil palm production was based on the studies Solidaridad undertook in 2019 in the Oil-palm Producing States. It is also part of the National Initiative on Sustainable Climate Smart Oil Palm Smallholder (NISCOPS) project.
Dr Ogalla added that the climate vulnerability Analysis studies undertaken by his organisation alerted on what they may face in the next 30 years if things continue the same way. Aerial photos and images taken during the course of the study showed sustained degradation of the ecosystem compared to the land use, vegetation and land cover in 1949. The projection for 2039 was based on this analysis.
Solidaridad report also found inadequate Gender Inclusion and Gender Participation in the oil palm value chain.
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