I left Zimbabwe for Nairobi to attend the African Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit, only to encounter yet another manifestation of climate change. And while today’s climate crises are prompting international appeals for food aid, the long-term solution is to help African farmers adapt. This means giving them access to innovations like stress-tolerant food crops, better climate forecasts, and new ways to maintain healthy soils. We can take advantage of advances in long-range climate forecasts to help African farmers anticipate and navigate shifting weather patterns. But African countries cannot fend off the food impacts of climate change by themselves—and nor should they.
