Adapting to a Changing Environment

Regional Sustainable Energy Center of Excellence

, 尼日利亚

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
生态系统
Forests
Forests
Urban Built Environment
Urban/Built Environment
社区类型
Suburban
Suburban
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: Africa
General Info

地址

Umaru Musa Yar
Katsina state
尼日利亚

电子邮件

cloustonenergy@aol.com
Problem

尺寸

7000

主要职业

Global

社区所依赖的本地资源，以及用于什么目的

Small Farmers

对资源的本地威胁

We have a strong technical team and a consortium

气候危害

Droughts.

敏感度等级

Moderate to great exposure.

适应能力水平

Moderate to high.
Solution

The Regional Sustainable Energy Center of Excellence (RSECE) is a consortium following the suggestions of Kofe Annan a past Secretary General of the United Nations. The Type Two Partnership consists of governmental organizations, non profits such as university and tax exempts and for profit businesses. We are inclusive of the poor. One of the projects is called Enhancement of Extension Agents and Youth Vocational Training. The Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) did a study and states in the report that an Extension Agent typically has 7,000 farmers in his service area. Only a few of the larger farmers are given service in a year. This suggests that there are several thousand farmers that are not served or are under served. We are working to enhance the Extension Agent and deliver with ICT information for continued training of farmers for the needed food secruity. Poverty and Hunger Relief is the first listed Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations. This enhancement ought to include youth interns and some method of earning an income. RSECE has actions now ramping up for this effort. Our consortium www.rsece.org

Results

生态成本

To be inclusive of the poor and deliver education will improve capacity to adapt to the expected changes due to Global Warming. The replacement of trees to include orchard trees that have a product (fruit and nuts) that will provide support in the Millen

生态效益

$0

用于衡量效益的经济指标

Greater than $1.00

社区/社会成本

We at RSECE ;have a Three Legged Stool program in development. The Green Data Center is not only for information for Extension Agent and Youth Vocational Training with Internship in support of the agents, but to manage Big Data. The three data sources are Space based, Aerial based and on the Groung based data. The ground based is withthe enhanced extension agent sector. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is very important in Baseline data and to compare to the Efficitiveness Monitoring.

社区/社会福利

$0 I have applied a Memorandum of Understanding that the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) and I signed that is intended to benefit the people of Nigeria and African neighbors. www.energy.gov.ng

用于衡量福利的社区/社会指标

Youth Vocational Training and job creation is a great social benefit to local and regional sectors.

经济成本

Extension Agents can provide methods and venues for the social or community cooperation and input of indigenous wisdom.

经济效益

Several hundreds of dollars for various costs to add to donations, some of which has already occured.

用于衡量效益的生态指标

Global Trade is anticipated after local and regional demands are met. A Food crop and a Cash Crop that includes feedstock for bioenergy and fuels is a product in demand and can be a sustainable project beyond any grant.

您的社区在实施此解决方案时面临哪些挑战？

Standard accounting methods are well understood.

Action

描述用于开发解决方案的基于社区的流程，包括使用的工具和流程

Poor to moderate.

关注的气候危害

Distance Education is facilitate by the Extension Agent and other members of RSECE for improve farming and yields of farmland. A Data Center is being developed with Solar Power that is grid connected and a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to be included.

您的解决方案如何减少暴露和缓冲/保护受影响的生态系统？

Changing temperatures and weather patterns

How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?

Appropriate actions to the forest area and arid areas are anticipated. Switchgrass can provide soil organic matter and reduce the encroachment of deserts. Three hundred pounds of three varieties have been delivered to Nigeria and will be planted in several different areas for study and selection. A product in demand would be ethanol from the second generation biofuel feedstock. Future clean cookstoves could have ethanol fuel for clean cooking and when this effort is expanded the vehicle fuel use is also considered to be a product in demand for sustainable triple bottom lines.

您的解决方案如何减少受影响社区的暴露并缓冲/保护受影响的社区？

Forests, Orchards and Switchgrass have roots that remain and have sequestered CO2 in their growth and life. Some trees can be harvested five times with the single planting so root calculations of carbon reduction is argued to exist.

您的解决方案如何降低受影响社区的敏感性？

Indirectly and directly it does by lowering the greenhouse gas and improved agricultural yields by enhancement of Extension Agents as well as greater service delivery in continued education to farmers.

您的解决方案如何提高当地社区适应潜在气候变化的能力？

Continued education by ICT and wireless methods. We have had several discussions with the Commonwealth of Learning. www.col.org who has in place a continued education for farmers. They also favored enhancement of Extension Agents which my paper influenced or was a timely addition to their programs in budget considerations.

Scale

这个解决方案可以在其他地方复制吗？

Finance is a bottleneck for development projects. However good business tools when applied become interesting for others. We are discussing now for the solar power for the Data Center. I am a IBM Partner World Partner and they have a Finance program available. IBM is actively developing a Data Center in Kenya now. The Wireless technology is relevant to the National Science Foundation funded program of Syracuse University and WiGiT group that is a wireless innovative testbed. group that I am a member of. I am also the International Director for RSECE www.rsece.org

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