 But also here, it is my pleasure to welcome Jihan Aghiti, sorry for the pronunciation again, and who is working at OCP. And OCP is a well-known company in Morocco, as we all know, notably working in the fertilizer industry. And you will show us how a large corporation can contribute as well. How much you are committed to this as well, as you know now my question. And so thank you, go ahead. Good afternoon. My name is Jihan Aghiti. I'm 35 years old, born and raised in Marrakech. So I hope you're enjoying your stay while here in this beautiful city. I'm head of business development at OCP Africa. So OCP is a world-leading phosphate fertilizer company based in Morocco, but operating... weather, but operating throughout the world. So personally, my background is very far from agriculture or fertilizer sector. I'm a business background. I used to work in a strategy consultancy firm for several years, working for different clients across the world. But at some point, I really wanted to reconnect to my continent, so I took a long leave. And I went traveling in East Africa when I did some volunteer work. And this is where I really first encountered the effect of climate change on real people. In the orphanage, they had the farm and every day at the end of the school, the kids, we gathered and we went to fetch water. I used to do that so well when I was kid at my grandparents' house, but the river was generous. There was plenty of water. I was shocked when I went the first day to go and fetch water to realize that actually the river, what I thought was a river, was only one meter wide and not even a meter deep. The water was brown and it was because the dry season was too long and it's getting more and more frequent. The rain season is short and the dry season is getting too long. So this is when I really decided to make a shift in my career and this is what also pushed me to join OCP in Morocco. It was mostly for the vision that the company had for Africa. So let me share a bit more on that. So yeah, let's start first with the setting this year and the situation. Let's imagine ourselves in Africa in 2030. If nothing is done to really change dramatically the way we consume and the way we actually address the climate situation, we will be facing almost 100 million hectares of land that will be unused for agriculture. And this is because of urbanization, desertification and also the water scarcity, sorry, for certain reason. Also we will have almost 200 million people living in really extreme poverty suffering from water scarcity as well which will lead obviously to important movements of population. Almost 3.5 million year of Africans will be moving displaced from the home countries or the home cities because of the climate change or because of unrest in the different countries. And also we will be considering that Africa is struggling to feed itself. Today already we import almost 35 billion dollars of food mostly from the US and Europe and it's estimated with the growing population and the changing in the diets to increase to almost 100 billion dollars. This money can be used for infrastructure so it can be used to build ports, for example, that are really lacking in the continent. But we can also try not to see this catastrophic kind of scenario and we hope that we can see also a different Africa. In Africa there is green. In Africa there is self-sufficient. In Africa there is, has a water natural resources management policies that is connected and attractive for investments and that has a growing economy. And this will be possible if we change a bit the way we view Africa. And let me here share an example with you. Especially in the context of the climate change. We have a growing population. We will be hitting almost 9 billion people in 2050. To feed those growing population we will need to increase our productivity in agriculture by almost 77 percent. That cannot be used only by using extensive arable land. We also need to increase the way it yields. And Africa in particular has one of the among the lowest yields in the world. Almost, let's give you an example for the fertilizer. We use, we talk in kilogram per hectare, the quantities that we're using. The word average is 130 kilograms a hectare. In Africa on average we are below 15 kilograms per hectare. Leading at a very low yield that's barely sufficient to self-sustain family in Africa. At OCP we try to change a bit of the narrative about Africa. Not seen only as the cause of the problems but also as a source of the solution. And let me also invite you and look at the map to review just the continents and the land that we have. Africa is as big as the United States, China, India and Europe combined. We don't usually have that sense of the how big is the continents. We do have a lot of fertile land. We have abundant water resources that are not well distributed and we do have them. And we have more specifically a labor force, a young and attractive agriculture labor force that can help Africa get into to feed itself. But we have a problem again. One of the major sources of CO2 emissions is deforestation. It's said that deforestation around the globe accounts for almost 20% of the CO2 emissions around the world. But what is causing mostly deforestation? It's partly and especially here, I'll give you the case of Côte d'Ivoire. And just I'll invite you to see the map. In the 1990s, the forests were almost covering all the land, all the country. This is the image in 2000 and this is today. Today we have almost 11% only of the land discovered by forest. And this is mostly due to the lack of modernization of agriculture. In Cacoa, a sector, for example, the farmers, because they don't have the means necessary to buy fertilizer or to have a proper and modernized way of agricultural practices, when the soil are depleted and poor, they go and cut trees to benefit from the fertility of those really rich nutrient soils. And this is actually what's really leading deforestation here in Côte d'Ivoire. So let me, before going to that, share then the perspective of LCP as a fertilizer producer. We are promoting a balanced fertilization. Africa needs to increase its yields to be able to feed the growing population in the context of the climate change. And to be able to do that, we need to support the agriculture value chain throughout the continent to be able to invest and modernize the agriculture. And this can be done in so many different ways. Myself and my role as LCP is in the business development. But the business development, the way we see it, is really oriented towards the farmer in Africa. And we have launched the really first farmers initiatives where we started doing awareness campaigns and recommendation and providing farmers with decision tools that could help them know and assess how to invest and where to invest and how much fertilizer do they need not to over-consume and not to consume in us. There is a motto, what we say, is more with less. And the idea is really to be able to only give to the soil what is really needed. And since the beginning of the farmers initiatives program, it was three years ago and today we're very proud of that. We supported almost 500,000 farmers across the continent trying to provide them with innovation and technology and digital and break the distance that we can have with them because of the remote areas and the lack of infrastructure. But OCP has also tried to start first with its own industrial assets and turn into a new ecological transition. We have launched a very ambitious program and actually now it's a dedicated executive direction within the company. It's for a circular economy direction. The idea is to be able to really lower our footprint, our carbon footprint by trying to work in a closed system. First, for example, with electricity, we're very happy to have almost 70% of our energy, is a clean energy within all our industrial assets. And let's say for Morocco and especially we have one of the biggest industrial complex in the world. We're also in terms of, sorry, the conception of water. We've tried to have a closed system where we only use and recycle the water that we use in our industrial systems. And we also try to rehabilitate the mines where we mine phosphate by replanting trees and a lot of other different activities and our lunch to be able to support this ecological transition to the company. And last, we also try and know the importance of R&D and the importance of innovation. So OCP is really working very hard to build bridges between the research and the academia to transform the agriculture, especially with the focus in Africa. We've launched a university, University Mohammed Six Politechnique that is based in Banguir that is also trying to invest resources for the research in areas are not always covered. For example, how to do agriculture in a desertic climate, in a desertic, how to grow specific seeds that will adapt to the climate changes. But also we have a specific master that has been launched also to be able to support new young coming generation. And lastly, again on the digital, we have launched an incubator to support startups. It's based at the university and the idea is to be able to incubate startups that are oriented into the Aztec and Biotech. Sorry, it's better. So to finish, let me just quote a quote from Nensel Mandena to emphasize how it's important, especially in looking at the context of the climate change. There are few better ways to show one's love for one's country and the well-being of one's nation than by working on the soil. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation of the OCP evolution to address climate change. But you told us at the beginning that you left, took some sabbatical, came back because you wanted to do something with a purpose, with impact. What have you personally achieved through this? Because I understand the industrial program. I'm not sure I see Gian into this. Now, Gian is, as I said, is in the, in the farmers initiatives programs. OCP is to not work directly with the farmers. We are more B2B oriented company. And it's actually what actually drives me to OCP is the launch and the inception of a program that is oriented to smallholder farmers where we give them supports. We have mobile laboratories that goes to the, that goes to the remote areas and provides free soil analysis to the farmers to be able to guide them on the quality and the health of their soils and how to better use fertilizer in good agricultural practices, training and also the use of digital tools to be able to help them in the assessments of the PNL of their farm, for example, just the basic thing. And there is another program called Agribuster where we try to connect the farmers with its ecosystem. And the idea is to be able to de-risk for the farmer his investments. So we go and find an off-taker or aggregators and secure markets for the farmer. So that's when he invests in the fertilizer or in any seeds. He's able to sell, to secure the sale of his harvest. And thanks to that, we have a collateral and we go to the banks. And with the banks, we are able to provide micro-critics to the farmers so that he can pay for the loans. And the idea is to support him to move from self-sufficient, sorry, agriculture to more modernized and commercial agriculture. And again, from three years since we launched the program, we almost supported and helped, I hope, and had impact in the life of 500,000 farmers. And we hope to, yes, yes. So I'm very proud. I think the company is very proud as well. I let you recover. Thank you.