Bouafou Kouamé Guy-Marcel

COP19: Bouafou Kouamé Guy-Marcel on drought mitigation in Africa

COP19 (16/11/13) – Bouafou Kouamé Guy-Marcel, Director-General of AGRHYMET (Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel) talks about the impacts of climate change in particular for West Africans.

Guy-Marcel says he has come to the talks to intervene in matters of food security, water and sustainable farming. He hopes to implement mapping systems to find areas at risk from drought and desertification in order to be able to adapt to climate change.