An Overview Of Our Solution
- Population Impacted:
- Continent: Africa
Address
03 BP 92 Porto-Novo. Bïnin
229 Porto-Novo
Western Sahara
Population impacted
Size
6.000.000
Major Occupations
Local resources the community depends on, and for what purpose
Local threats to resources
Climate Hazards
Level of sensitivity
Level of adaptive capacity
The options developed beyond the farmers' practice and is based primarily on three adaptation options implemented in real learning situation in Farmer Field Schools for producers to know: 1. Mucuna The use of mucuna can cover the soil and protect against the blows of limiting exposure dryness. The humidity is maintained in the crop. Similarly, the physical and chemical properties of the soil are improved. It also has the facility to cover all the ground, and fighting against weeds and helping to protect against soil erosion and evapotranspiration. The use of mucuna allows one hand to deal with the delay and poor rainfall distribution and secondly to fight against the pockets of drought and rain breaks in the rainy season. Maize is sown in good density (0.40 * 0.80) with 2-3 seeds per hole. Exercise and the beginning of the run (at least 2 weeks of vegetation) are expected and mucuna shifted slightly on the side of the ridge in the planting hole at the same density inter sow. You can also put in place before the mucuna and maize later in some cases by opening holes in the mulch to plant corn. 2. Zai Zai is a practice that can rationally manage rainwater promoting its infiltration for its availability to the plant. Zai provides a relative humidity in the plant for several days after the rain. It can reduce water losses due to pockets of drought in the rainy season and sudden breaks of rain. Are the zai holes diameters and varying depths (at least 20 cm) dug in the immediate vicinity of the planting holes or planting holes themselves as variants. They fit most flat for plowing. They can be filled or not organic matter, which contributes to the fertility of soil, plant nutrition and retains more water in the vicinity of the plant It helps fight against the pockets of drought in the rainy season and the rainy sudden breaks. 3. Pigeonpea The principle of alley cropping based pigeon pea is planted in association with food crops (maize in particular) the pigeon pea is a legume rapid growth. After the harvest of food crops, pigeon pea is left in the field during a given period. It fertilizes the soil through leaf fall, decomposition of roots and branches. The corn in corridor-based pigeon pea is to sow corn between the lines of pigeon pea. This allows the pigeon peas produce a large number of leaves needed to accelerate the restoration of soil fertility (see photo below). This option is provided in order to fight against the winds.
Economic Benefit
the adoption of systems association mucuna with maize is the option that is economically more profitable for producers, and its performance is tripled when the mucuna is combined with farming practices and the use of fertilizers. Common Central Benin and those timidly North are those where the most remarkable performances were observed; ? Technical Za� ranks second technology tested. Unlike other options, it was developed in the Banikoara and resulted in sufficiently interesting especially when Zai combined with farming practices and fertilizer use results; ? alley cropping based pigeon pea grown in southern Benin is not profitable for producers. Although the combination of this technique with the farming practices and the use of fertilizer improves productivity though not, it does not allow for a level of production that allows producers to recoup their investments before making a profit.
Describe the community-based process used to develop the solution including tools and processes used
Strengthening Project Economic Knowledge and Capacity for Adaptation to climate change in Benin (PRECAB) initiated by the NGO Initiatives for Integrated Sustainable Development (IDID) was funded by the Research Centre for International Development (IDRC ) for a period of three years (2011-2013) in 35 communes of Benin through the Initiative Research Centers Africans on Adaptation (CRAA). It aims to improve the adaptability and resilience capacity of local communities to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on food security and rural poverty in Benin based on the results of the project to strengthen adaptive capacity in rural Benin climate change (April 2007 - April 2011) funded by the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program (CCAA) program and DFID. It is for this project to do a thorough comparative economic analysis (multi-criteria analysis, cost / benefit), adaptation options identified above to determine which add value to the producer, while allowing it to cope with major climate risks. It also introduces the management of climate-related disasters in the communal committees early warning and adaptation to climate change (CCAC) and emphasizes capacity building and dissemination of relevant information through the center of expertise and support to local communities (CERCA). The project is implemented in collaboration with the National Institute of Agricultural Research of Benin (INRAB) and the Ministry for Agriculture (APRM) with the ultimate beneficiaries farmers (matrices), local officials, technical staff and managers decentralized state services. The Ministry of Environment Housing and urban focal point of climate change in Benin is monitoring and evaluating the implementation of field activities. The implementation of activities is centered on stakeholder participation. Producers initially associated with all stages and refunds will be organized to validate the different results as to measure progress of the project. Boundary partners of this project are producers and producers of food crops, local elected officials, technical staff of municipalities, agricultural extension officers and the political and administrative authorities at various levels. To these are added the indirect beneficiaries are the local communities as a whole, other development actors Note the installation of participatory trials in farmers' field schools with a total of 360 producers involved in the six departments of project intervention, training of technical staff and extension agents from 76 CeCPA of Benin has been associated. Furthermore, the identified adaptation options have a positive impact far beyond the narrow confines of adaptation to climate change and will therefore have co-benefits or significant co-costs. Indeed, the implementation of an adaptation option provides a solution to some existing problems (eg corn in mucuna contributes to the integrated management of land, the limited use of chemical fertilizers, the fight against weeds, etc.). These co-benefits and co-costs are taken into account in the analysis
Climate hazard of concern
Can this solution be replicated elsewhere?
yes, this solution can be replicated in all west Africa coutries and others with the same climate reality