Climate Change and Environment

Indigenous Knowledge Central to Climate Change Solution

Indigenous Knowledge Central to Climate Change Solution

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Development practitioners must do away with the arrogant belief that they have superior knowledge over issues that affect communities. In designing a community intervention approach, overall participation in the process is fundamental. In doing that, community involvement rooted in indigenous knowledge brings acceptability, success, and sustainability. In designing Climate Change Solutions, indigenous knowledge integration and […]

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Climate Change, greatest threat to education

Climate Change, greatest threat to education

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Climate change threat to education becomes prominent in Kogi State, North-Central Nigeria. Frequent floods as a result of rising sea levels caused by climate have destroyed many schools and denied a huge number of persons access to education. According to official figures from the Kogi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), over 1,380 schools and about

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Why investment in climate justice advocacy is fundamental

Why investment in climate justice advocacy is fundamental

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Our experience has shown that poor funding is making environmental justice Organizations struggle in their climate justice advocacy. This poses a challenge to them, making them not to effectively carry out evidence-based advocacy and analysis that will help to communicate Climate Change in a way that will resonate with the people for adaptation and resilience

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Why Community voice must be at centre of climate justice

Why Community voice must be at centre of climate justice

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Approaches to addressing climate justice, often neglect community voices while outsourcing issues of advocacies, mitigation, and adaptation to experts who do not have an understanding of how the communities are impacted by climate change. Community voice must be at the center of CLIMATE JUSTICE since over one billion people globally live in informal settlements. Many

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Climate Change Impacts FCT women farmers, widens inequality

Climate Change Impacts FCT women farmers, widens inequality

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Women farmers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Nigerian capital city are recounting how climate change impact is hitting them and widening economic inequality in the communities they live. The small holders’ women farmers who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at Jiwa community, in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Kuje and Abaji recounted how shortage in

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Climate change hits Northern Nigerian Farmers hardest

Climate change hits Northern Nigerian Farmers hardest

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The change in weather conditions as a result of climate change is hitting Northern Nigerian ginger farmers the hardest resulting in the loss of income and rendering them poor. Farmers in Kaduna, north-west Nigeria in different accounts narrated how the change in weather as a result of climate change has negatively impacted their ginger farms.

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Abuja farmers losing Yam harvest to Climate Change

How Climate Change Impacts Farmers in FCT Communities

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A commissioned report by MAWA-Foundation with support from MEEDAN to examine the impact of climate change in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria’s capital city, with an estimated 3,067,500 populations and covers 7,620 kilometres of landmass, has found how rural farmers are losing their yam produce to climate change. A situation that is making them

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We are losing beans farm to climate change – Jiwa Farmers

We are losing beans farm to climate change – Jiwa Farmers

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Farmers at the Jiwa community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria’s capital city have continued to recount how they are losing their beans farm to a change in weather, a condition they said was brought upon them by the climate change. The farmers who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at a

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