“Before now, our rainy season started in March but now the rain comes in May or early June. In the 70s, we used to plant our guinea corn ‘yar falgore’ in April and harvest it in October, now we are not planting that species again.  We now plant ‘kaura’ which matures in four months and also engage in mixed farming because the rainy season has reduced” This was the story as narrated by Mallam Yahaya Adamu, a community member and project beneficiary from Falgore in Doguwa Local Government Area in Kano State.

As part of its adaptation pilot project, Greenwatch Initiative with the support of BNRCC, has taken the delivery of twenty wash wells and water pumps to members of the Falgore community. The organization has also trained the beneficiaries on the use of the machines and other aspects of climate change adaptation strategies. These measures will enhance dry season farming activities in the community and will go a long way in addressing other impacts of climate change and alternative income generation methods respectively.

The community in their bid to sustain and also take the ownership of the initiative have set up a Project Implementation Committee (PIC) who share the responsibility of mobilizing the community for all project activities, coordinate the implementation of the project, resolve any potential conflicts, generate counterpart/local contribution in kind or cash as well as monitor and evaluate the performance of the project in their community. The beneficiaries who are full of gratitude turned out in large numbers to welcome the BNRCC monitoring team, during their recent visit on February 5th and also took the team to their farms where they demonstrated the use of the wash wells and water pumps for their dry season farming.

The community, through the PIC, has also commenced a plan to move to the next phase of the project which is water harvesting techniques, bee keeping and an intensive tree planting campaign.

To get more information on this BNRCC Pilot adaptation project being implemented by Greenwatch Initiative, please contact Greenwatch Initiative, Makurdi (www.greenwatchinitiative.org  or  e-mail: greenwatchinitiative@yahoo.com).

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