#Solution Preserving water & soils in Myanmar
Update 2015-11-30In Myanmar (Burma), agro-ecology is providing a solution for development and climate.
The heavy rains that hit the south of the country in August 2015 left more than 100 dead, triggered landslides and caused devastating floods. These disasters affected more than one million Burmese and destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice fields.
PRESERVING WATER AND SOILS
GRET Initiative
Myanmar
Adaptation
In Myanmar (Burma), agro-ecology is providing a solution for development and climate.
The heavy rains that hit the south of the country in August 2015 left more than 100 dead, triggered landslides and caused devastating floods. These disasters affected more than one million Burmese and destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice fields.
Farmers are among the worst affected by the consequences of these recurring extreme events and periods of severe drought. Here, climate hazards reinforce existing vulnerabilities resulting from inadequate food production and incomes that are too low to allow adaptation. Migration is often the only option for people. GRET helps some 2,500 impoverished farmers to conserve water and restore soil fertility for rain-fed crops by deploying agro-ecology methods such as earth dykes, ground-covering plants, composted organic materials, etc. These actions, involving both crop and livestock farming, are not only beneficial in that they increase production volumes, they also promote agricultural practices producing low greenhouse gas emissions.