BDU’s Vice President for Research and Community Services Dr Tesfaye Shiferaw, welcoming the participants on the occasion, said that the objective of the symposium is directly or indirectly related to the three pillars of the university. The dialogue is instrumental to practically mitigate the challenges of climate change.

The symposium has the objective of assuring food security through creating an agricultural society that can stand the challenges of climate change. Good practices among the farmers that are related to adapting to climate change will be considered in the curriculum, and will be made accessible to policy makers.

Climate change has a huge negative impact on farmers in Ethiopia, said CIAF Project Director, Dr Teshome Lemma. “Building lasting green economy requires skilled human resource on environmental science is required.” Dr Teshome. Discussion was made on launching postgraduate program in natural recourse management.