 In order to remain relevant and productive, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, has organized training on food and farming systems for some farmers in Potakotu River State Capital. Participants were trained on how to use agroecology for better farm production, the report. The program manager of HOMEF, Joyce Brown speaks on the significance of agroecology. She notes that the system will help to mitigate the impact of climate change by retaining carbon in the soil. Agriculture helps soils to be resilient to the impact of climate change. It's important that as a people, as a country, we find our way back to agroecology because most of the practices of agroecology are practices that our farmers have been practicing over time. There are new practices, there are innovations in agroecology but basically there are practices that we know but we are moving away from because of the advent of the use of chemicals, the heavy use of chemicals. Facilitating the movement of food products from the farms to the market becomes necessary and this means the government must fix bad roads. Obviously, the government has to empower farmers with organic fertilizers. Agroecology is the magic, you know, agroecological principles, you know, actually what we stand for, we advocate for it because it's not a risky technology as GM. Agroecology is a system that aligns with our natural system of food production and we encourage the government, you know, to educate, train and empower our farmers, you know, in that line. We should make laws that are contextual, laws that protect the interests of our smallholder farmers because the plant variety protection law is actually in accordance to what they call UPOL. Some farmers are already sold out to the agroecology method of famine as it is in line with nature and does not come with any health implications. They call on the government to encourage the practice across the nation and reject the genetically modified agnus in foods. We don't see any benefit in it. It brings us as a government to give us money, let them give us ground that we empower us to do the manual work we have been doing because we discover that even since the GMO can kill grass, it will also kill the insects that are friendly to farm, it will kill them. After a two-day dialogue and training on agroecology, participating farmers are confident that the solution to impact of climate change and food crisis is agroecology. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.