While Togo’s 50 km long coastline is weakened by frequent flooding, the government is supporting women in coastal regions whose agricultural activities are paying the price.<\/p>\n
As part of the project to strengthen the resilience of Togo\u2019s coastal communities to climate change (R4C-Togo) recently launched by the Togolese authorities, 70 women\u2019s cooperatives will receive support to strengthen their climate resilience. These are mainly women who depend on local natural resources for their livelihoods, particularly in coastal areas threatened by erosion.<\/p>\n
This is particularly the case in the Plateaux region where the overflowing waters of the Mono River (on the border with Benin, editor\u2019s note) recently untied the Ila and Any\u00e9kpada bridges located in the council of Est-Mono. Several women were then deprived of the road to their fishing and farming activities. Faced with this situation, the support provided by the government of Togo focuses on securing the water supply and collecting fuel for cooking and heating in many households run by women.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the agricultural level, it is a question of improving the living conditions of women farmers and on the forestry level, we will intensify the protection of ecosystems that are already weakened,\u201d\u00a0explains Bakabima Ditorgan, the project coordinator. Ultimately, R4C-Togo aims to strengthen the food security of 99,500 Togolese through technologies and innovative solutions developed by 2,100 local entrepreneurs. For a total cost of 8.9 million dollars (more than 4.4 billion CFA francs), the initiative is funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[1001,708],"region":[30],"source":[8703],"country":[3032],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/97954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/97954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97955,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/97954\/revisions\/97955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97954"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=97954"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=97954"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=97954"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=97954"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=97954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}