There are two types of farming on the flood plains of rivers. The first, which is widely practiced, is to plant as flood waters retreat. The other is to plant certain fast growing crops as flood waters advance. About 10 million hectares of land in floods plains in Africa are under flood-recession agriculture.
Terrace farming on slopes helps conserve water. Along with other measures such as micro-dams, stone bunds and percolation pits, this can reduce surface runoff and increase soil moisture. One such system called Fanya juu terrace have expanded in several parts of East Africa, particularly in the Machachakos District in Kenya where 85% of the land is now terraced.
People in arid areas around the world innovate with water conservation, especially rainwater harvesting. One such is the Fars Province in Iran, a desert landscape. Since 1983, an extraordinary programme of floodwater harvesting has been implemented that has turned area lush green. This programme has turned silt-laden floods into an asset. It has been combined with upstream water management to control the salinity in the Helleh River
There has been a remarkable landscape transformation in Tigray. Soil and water conservation activities have covered half of the agricultural land building. The activities have caused crop production to increase by 50%-100% and a large range of innovations to take root. This soil and water conservation programme is very much a story of scale begets scale and success breeding success
A project to support catchment-based planning and development of water resources to enhance the adaptive capacity of climate was implemented in Mpanga, Rwizi and Aswa catchments in the Albert, Victoria and Upper Nile Water Management zones. As a result of the project the beneficiaries should be able to adapt to the impacts of climate change while improving their livelihoods through the various small scale projects.
Barwaaqo Voluntary Organization (BVO) team in Somaliland constructed soil conservation stone line bunds to reduce water run-off, mitigating flooding, and allowing rainwater to seep into the soil, decreasing soil erosion needed to reverse desertification.
More than a quarter of Nakuru households could be classified as ‘urban crop cultivators’ and about a fifth as ‘urban livestock keepers’. The cultivation of a vegetable, known as sukuma wiki, that is the local name for a green, leafy vegetable of the spinach variety (Spinacea oleracea) is very popular.
Beira is a city in Mozambique with a municipal government that has worked with the Netherlands since 2012 in a long-term partnership to support urban resilience. The partners made a conscious decision to focus on process, allowing strategies to emerge and adapt to changing contexts.
The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Libreville, Gabon. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city as exclusion of vulnerable people, heat island effects, decrease of air quality and decrease of quality of citizens’ health.
The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Conakry, Guinea. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city, including floods, coastal erosion, and water scarcity.
The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Dodoma, Tanzania. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city, including floods, coastal erosion, and water scarcity.
The 2021 eruption of La Soufrière volcano in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) took place in a
context of years of significant under investment in the agriculture sector. Cheron Constance traces the
immediate impacts on farms and farmers, the medium-and long-term consequences, and proposes actions to build a resilient, revalued food system for the island nation.
