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Ethiopia
5 September 2025
Farm Africa at Africa Climate Summit (ACS) 2
Senior Farm Africa staff will participate in next week’s Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Ethiopia to showcase scalable models, experience, lessons and recommendations from the organisation’s climate resilience programmes across eastern Africa.
The Farm Africa team at ACS2 includes Ethiopia Country Director Shewit Emmanuel, Technical Manager for Agriculture & Natural Resource Management Nura Aman and Director of Programmes Tom Cadogan.
They will participate in various panel discussions and side events, alongside partners including the African Development Bank, the Norwegian embassy, MicroSave Consulting, the FSD (Financial Sector Deepening) Network and Tree Aid.
The team will share lessons from programmes that have broad relevance across Africa, creating opportunity for replication of successful approaches that simultaneously conserve ecosystems, mitigate climate change and boost livelihoods for rural communities. They will also spotlight the importance of private sector financing for climate adaptation.
Farm Africa and its partners in collaboration with local government and communities have demonstrated scalable ecosystem-based solutions, delivering tangible progress on nature-based climate mitigation, adaptation and food system transformation.
“You cannot conserve natural resources without thinking about the livelihoods of the community, and you cannot improve livelihoods of the community without thinking about conservation of the environment. The two go hand in hand. If that is jointly planned and jointly executed, any intervention will be successful and sustainable.”
Shewit Emmanuel
Farm Africa Country Director, Ethiopia
Hosted by the Government of Ethiopia in collaboration with the AUC, ACS2 will take place from 8–10 September 2025 in Addis Ababa under the theme “Accelerating Global Climate Solutions: Financing for Africa’s Resilient and Green Development.”
ACS2 will convene heads of state and government, ministers, private sector leaders, civil society, youth and development partners to advance Africa-led solutions and shape a united position for global negotiations.
The summit recognises Africa not only as a region vulnerable to climate impacts but as a powerhouse of transformative climate solutions. With a strong emphasis on empowering communities, including youth and Indigenous groups, ACS-2 emphasises nature-based solutions, climate-smart food systems, renewable energy innovation, and climate finance access.
