Climate change and food insecurity are not a distant-future concept, it is happening right now and the need to act now. Climate change is the greatest challenge for mankind in the 21st century. It extreme weather events, and disproportionate effects are causing economically downtrodden across the world rendering the global south more susceptible to extreme poverty. Speaking of disproportionate effects and food insecurity, about 9.6 million people in the Sahel and West Africa are already food insecure. While about 7.1 million are Nigerian, some 3.5 million are malnourished children, and others are facing phase 5 famine.

In 2015, COP21 officially signed into the Paris Accord in the acknowledgment of Climate Change existence and the plethora havoc it could cause. Accordingly, the United Nations General Assembly set the 17 SDGs, a blueprint to achieve a sustainable future in relation to all facets of development. Specifically, SDG 1, 2, 12, and 13 tend to address poverty; zero hunger (the food system); production and consumption; and climate Action respectively.

The New Urban Agenda (NUA) inconsistent with SDG 1 and 2, seeks to integrate food and nutrition security through territorial approaches and policies to link up rural, peri-urban, and urban spaces with a focus on the urban poor. The NUA advocates a cross-sectoral approach uniting food production, storage, processing, distribution, and marketing to make sustainable food more accessible and affordable for all. It also suggests provisions to reduce food waste and food loss; recognizes the need to integrate with other policy areas, including energy, water, health, transport, and waste; and emphasizes the critical value of genetic diversity in seeds and the importance of reducing chemical inputs. To this extent, Essence Greenery has taken the mantle in unifying and to collaborate with all parties that share our vision using smart agriculture, a farm-to-plate initiative to cut emission while transitioning to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy across Africa.