Investigating the impact of climate change and measures that can be taken to adapt to it

and mitigate its effects

Catherine Namwezi Rural transformer in Kibaale District, W. Uganda

UN PREDICTIONS THAT CAME TRUE

The dessert is increasing south word

Temperatures will increase, rain fall will vary

UN prediction -Droughts increased-

Soil desertification will increase

“There’s only 20cm of soil left between us and extinction”The UN general secretary.

Map of Africa showing the places I visited in the North and the south of Sudan

El-OBEID

Temperatures increased by 0.7 degrees

Rainfall amounts stayed the same

Pastoral areas affected by drought in El-Obeid

Effects of high temperatures and little rainfall

Increased evaporation leading to:

Effects Soil desertification

Poor crop yields

Loss in pastoral grounds

Conclusion

oTemperatures have increased

oAnnual Rainfall has decreased

oMore frequent droughts

oSoil degradation has occurred

oThe desert is moving southwards

oLess agricultural productivity

oPoor nutrition and increased diseases

Malakal

Temperatures : have increased by less than 1.1⁰C in Malakal

Rainfall: decreased by about to 100 ml per year

General findings

oIncreased temperatures oDecreased rainfalloImproved soil qualityoProductive farming methodsoBetter standards of living

Vision made by the government of Malakal in 2013 as a way of mitigating

climate change effects

HOW THE VISION WAS MET

Emphasizing FMNR Projects with the farmers

Trees for carbon credits

Energy efficient stoves

Better methods of farmingPracticing The Loes Plateau strategies

Cover crops grasses

Farming methodsCrop rotation

Trenches mulching

Rain water harvesting

Dams with out lets which are open during dry seasons

Youth were forced to work on farms

Helped to make Youth groups

Taught better ways of farming

Irrigation farming

Education

All kids had to go to school

Agriculture was made compulsory

Two generation approach

The two generation approach method. All schools have the last week of school dedicated to teaching kids about climate

change and the ways to mitigate and adopt to the effects of climate change. At the end of the week, all parents of school going kids are then expected to come in school and their kids then facilitate to them what they learned in the last week of

school. After that, both the parents and the kids are then expected to go back home and put into practice what they have been taught at school. Areas of focus included, better

methods of farming, organic farming, pest control etc

Media

Radio stations

Awareness poster

Remarks from an Interview with Mr. Peter Schuurs

“Even when Sudan is planning on having Sun drop projects, Something like Sun drop farms is enormously capital intensive, requiring millions of dollars to set-up even just a couple of hectares. The big advantage that South Sudan has going for it compared to almost any other country in the world is that it has large tracts of basically unoccupied land that has relatively fertile soils and receives reliable & abundant rainfall each year – these are its competitive advantages, and this flows through to the type of farming system we use which actually has the capacity to sequester carbon back into the soil through its ability to improve soil organic matter levels over time”

Some of the other results

Population increase in general . But there was a decrease in the Sudan and increase in the south

Farms have been set up