{"id":1794,"date":"2014-09-29T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T08:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2016-07-19T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:52:26","slug":"preparing-farmers-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/preparing-farmers-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing farmers for climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitigating measures are taken to increase resilience to climate change.<\/strong>-By\u00a0Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

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Joseph Nduwimana: \u201cWe can\u2019t do anything against climate change. The seasons are unpredictable.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Evariste Sinarinzi, a civil servant at the Burundi Geographical Institute (IGEBU) and a Water and Climate Change Expert, indicates that during several years, IGEBU observed that the length of the rainy season was the same as the dry season. \u201cDue to climatic disturbance, the period of dry and rainy seasons are now both six months\u201d, Evariste Sinarinzi remarks. He mentions that the rainy season used to last eight months while the dry season was four months. \u201cThis situation confuses farmers. We must help them to prepare to be resilient to climate change. For instance, they can cultivate stronger plants which are resistant to climate change\u201d, he points out.
\nIn Sinarinzi\u2019s point of view, the short dry season observed in January tends to disappear; instead the dry season lasts until the end of April.
\nHe feels that farmers and the Ministry of Agricultural and Livestock should be aware of the situation and implement strategies to improve resilience to climate change. \u201cFarmers should be organized, avoid traditional systems of cultivation and adopt some modern techniques. To help them, IGEBU should provide day to day information about the meteorological forecasting\u201d, Sinarinzi suggests.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeasons are unpredictable\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph Nduwimana, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock indicates that the Ministry does not refer to the IGEBU forecasting when discussing and implementing strategies to increase resilience to climate change. \u201cWe can\u2019t do anything against climate change. The seasons are unpredictable\u201d, Joseph Nduwimana acknowledges. He indicates that forecasts given by IGEBU are not reliable, because the institution bases its prediction on information from regional forecasting agencies.<\/p>\n

However, the Permanent Secretary ensures that mitigating measures are taken.
\n\u201cThe Ministry is engaged by preparing wetland in order to increase the surface of fields for cultivation, after the rainy season. Also, hillside irrigation is among the main activities organized by the Ministry. Also, we try to create and develop water storage facilities for rainwater in the whole country\u201d, Nduwimana mentions.<\/p>\n

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\nAccording to Evariste Sinarinzi from the Burundi Geographical Institute (IGEBU), we can expect:
\n-An increase of rainfall varying from 3 to 10% for the rainy months of November-April
\n-A decrease in rainfall of 4 to 15% during the months of May to October
\n-An almost ten-year cyclical variability of rainfall
\n– A trend of rainfall pronounced upward from the mid-2030s
\n-The dry season will be increasingly long 6-7 months.
\n-The change in rainfall reflects on the hydrological regime which will be characterized by a widespread decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitigating measures are taken to increase resilience to climate change.-By\u00a0Diane Uwimana Evariste Sinarinzi, a civil servant at the Burundi Geographical Institute (IGEBU) and a Water and Climate Change Expert, indicates that during several years, IGEBU observed that the length of the rainy season was the same as the dry season. \u201cDue to climatic disturbance, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[45,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}