Climate based innovations for disaster mitigations

Summary

Project empowers 500 people affected by climate disasters (IDPs, returnees, locals, persons with disabilities, and minorities) through: 1. Gender-sensitive, inter-clan water and land management committees for peaceful resolution of resource-based conflicts. 2. Climate change training and sensitization on sustainable enterprises, including the production of briquettes and energy-efficient cooking stoves. 3. Planting climate-resilient plants through the community, such as sisal, acacia, mahogany, teak, sorghum, and millet.

Project budget:   $41,000

Fund deficit:         $40,925

APCO gratefully acknowledges the rarity, enthusiasm, and dedication of donors for contributing $75 to this project: climate-based innovations for disaster mitigation in Somalia. APCO is actively involved in planting and promoting agroforestry through

• Promoting production technology packages that are better suited for evolving climatic and environmental conditions in target areas involves providing training and technical assistance to smallholder farmers and empowering local rural communities to increase food production. 
• Strengthening the current APCO-community-led irrigation sector to expand food security investments in vegetables, fruit trees, ordinary trees, and crops.
• Mainstreaming climate change adaptation mechanisms and systems, such as water harvesting, irrigation, and planting and distribution of indigenous trees, fruits, vegetables, and crops, including Qudhac sorghum, millet, three-month-growing hybrid maize species, and legumes such as cowpeas, sesame, groundnuts, and cassava, which require less water than local seeds. 
• Planting and distributing drought-, flood-, and locust-resistant fruits and trees, such as date palms and Moringa Oleifera, a drought-tolerant tree that thrives in hot, dry climates. It produces protein- and iron-rich leaves and seed pods that can be consumed as vegetables, providing a healthy food source for humans and fodder for livestock.
• Nutrition-sensitive agriculture training, sensitization, and field demonstrations, e.g., on planting, manuring, fertilization, propagating, tilling, weeding, harvesting, storage, packaging, marketing, and selling seeds, seedlings, poultry, fruits, and other auxiliary products locally and internationally.

Project Impact in Somalia

1. Increased food production and economic stability for vulnerable communities.
2. Reduced poverty, hunger, and malnutrition through innovative food systems.
3. Empowered local farmers, women, and youth in sustainable agribusiness.
4. Enhanced climate adaptation and environmental resilience in Somalia.

Links:

• APCO website