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The Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) has led a campaign against climate change and its negative impact on livelihoods and agriculture, through Farmer-managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) for tree cultivation.
The natural regeneration of trees managed by farmers is the practice adopted by farmers to maintain and feed young trees growing in their fields rather than destroying them for agricultural purposes.
It was found that some farmers destroyed trees on their fields during land preparation, which largely contributed to the adverse variability of climate change, such as the regularity of rainfall and rising temperatures, which had an impact. negative about society.
In an interview with Mr. Danniel Banuoku, Deputy Director of CIKOD North, he said that CIKOD had trained about 5,000 farmers in Lawra Municipal District and Nandom to adopt agro-ecological agriculture, including FMRN, in the region. part of the campaign.
He added that his organization had also supported farmers in some communities in the municipalities of Lawra Municipal and Nandom, including the communities of Pavuu, Ermong, Goziiri and Koo, among others, to recover about 100 acres of degraded land under of the FMNR as part of the strategies for mitigating climate change.
"There are also problems to deal with with the element of mitigation, which is why FMNR helps communities regenerate degraded landscapes by ensuring the possession and protection of trees and by improving ecosystems." of the community.
We are looking at these mitigation measures in two different ways. First, we have dedicated degraded landscapes and we are working to regenerate them, "he explained.
Mr Banuoku said the forecast of a temperature rise of around 3 to 5%, especially in sub-Saharan Africa between 2020 and 2050, posed a real threat to the world and warned that if any measures were not put in place to avoid this trend, the rise could be higher.
The impacts of climate change, he said, could lead to a decline in agricultural production, leading to food insecurity, rising temperatures and region-specific impacts, such as land and development plans. drier water in sub-Saharan Africa and a rise in sea level in some parts of the western world as well as the disease outbreak among others.
Mr. Banuoku therefore indicated that he encouraged the training of farmers in farmer-managed natural regeneration, the habitat of tree planting to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change .
He observed that another worrying situation was the forecast of a desert expansion of about three kilometers a year up to the coast, a situation that he reported could be detrimental in the near future.
Mr. Banuoku explained that Burkina Faso, for example, was already facing the effects of climate change – a high temperature of about 40 degrees, drier land and less rainfall, among others.
This, he said, has prompted farmers to adopt climate resilient strategies such as the "half moon", the "stone lines with grbad strips" and the cultivation methods. zai "to maximize both meager rains and soil fertility in order to increase food production. .
He added that the government of Burkina Faso had given priority to irrigation agriculture through the construction of dams to counter the limited rainfall of up to three months currently known in the country.
Mr Banuoku therefore indicated that it was necessary for the government, the private sector and development partners to unite to face the glaring threat of climate change for the environment and life populations.
The Deputy Director of CIKOD added that his organization had engaged communities to develop climate change-related disaster plans, through which eight communities in Lawra Mucipal and Nandom districts, in the extreme region west, had been helped to develop these basins.
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