This is a planning grant incorporating six concepts, thus six project will be the outcome. The concepts are 1) Water Harvesting,2-3) Agriculture/Sustainable land Management addressing land degradation for food security,4) Flood and drought resistant crops, 5) Energy efficient wood stoves and renewable energy in combination with Agro Forestry/general reforestation and improved natural resouce management and 6) Awareness building interventions on Climate Change, coping strategies, global warming and nutrition.
The overall project goal is for communities to pilot the above listed concepts to come up with sustainable CBA coping strategies that can be duplicated on large scale locally, nationally and internationally by communities in similar situations. The strategies would also make significant impact on community development, capacity building and poverty reduction.
The project sites are the Omusati, Ohangwena, Oshikoto, Oshana and Kavango regions ( North Central Part of Namibia).
The climate risks these six concepts seek to address are frequent and more severe floods, droughts, increased temperatures and aridity, extreme changes in rainfall patterns and therefore changed growing seasons. The direct impact of these climate changes are threats to food and water security and health status, and threats to eco systems, traditional crops and grazing land vulnerability due to severe soil degradation, deforestation and desertification.