Strengthening Agricultural livelihood in rufugees host communities of West Nile.
Objectives:
To increase household agricultural production, productivity and incomes among the refugees host communities in the rural areas of West Nile.
Expected outcomes:
Rural communities in the West Nile have improved gender responsive sustainable livelihoods, diversified economic opportunities and basic social protections.
How a changing climate will affect poor rural women and men in Refugees communities?
Outreach lesson at school, we encouraged children to plant more trees, and distributed trees to schools areas we work in the West Nile
FHDML is enhancing its approach to rural development in the context of increasing environmental threats, including climate change. Our programmes will continue to reflect the complex reality of poor smallholder businesses, where issues are not contained neatly in boxes labelled according to global issues. And FHDML will continue to target its investments at the poorer and often most climate-change affected people – whose livelihoods depend largely on agriculture and natural resources – particularly at women as producers and indigenous people as stewards of natural resources. But there is recognition that climate-related risks, and potential opportunities, can be addressed more systematically within our projects and policy advice. For example, we cannot rely on historical rainfall and temperature averages, since climate change is increasing the scale of volatility and risk. We need to be alert to new sources of risk, and there may be more opportunities in the future to reward emissions reductions.
Environmental threats such as climate change are inseparable from FHDML’s mission of helping poor smallholders (including pastoralists and agro foresters). Climate change is multiplying their existing risks, creating new ones, and – depending on the global response – creating some new opportunities as well. The goal of this strategy is to maximize FHDML’s impact on rural poverty in a changing climate.
This goal is further articulated in three statements of purpose: to support innovative approaches to helping smallholder producers – both women and men – build their resilience to climate change; to help smallholder farmers take advantage of available mitigation incentives and funding; and to inform a more coherent dialogue on climate change, rural development, agriculture and food security.
