The first
project, I will present you, is a cooperation between German Federal Ministryfor Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the LCBC. Their main goal is
information and education concerning climate change and how people can adapt on
the different living circumstances.
Therefore,
the BMZ made a case study by measuring all the climate information they got.
Rainfall, temperature etc. and how they developed in the past decades. With
this information they created different climate change scenarios for this area.
The paper
is very interesting and I recommend it to read, in particular, because of the
use of modern techniques like remote sensing, they created nice graphics.
For example
a graphic, which shows the NDVI in a dry year and in a wet year.
Figure 4: GIZ 2015
For
everybody who is not familiar with the short form NDVI. It means Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index and it is a method to make a statement concerning
the quality and quantity of vegetation by using a special formula on remote
sensing data.
With this
project the BMZ and LCBC want to achieve a better awareness and understanding
of climate change in the population. Especial because according to them (BMZ),
the drying of the lake is just 50% by global climate change, the rest is caused
by growing water demand, in particular for agricultural.
Figure 5: BMZ
I really enjoyed reading your blog, Yamil! From this particularly post I am curious about the adaptation methods that you mention. Have you come across any examples of how the community is improving agricultural efficiency?
AntwortenLöschenHi, thank you for the comment! To improve agricultural efficiency, they are trying to cultivate crops, which are more adaptive regarding water needs in special areas and seasons, to minimize the usage of water. For example, special plants in dryer regions and different plants in more wet regions etc.
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