A story of climate change, drought, irrigation ideas and struggles to share information. February 21, 2011
Here is my contribution to the discussions about enabling projects to find each other and rub minds.
This is the kind of challenge that attracted me to CotW. It is genuine story. It hope it will help you to understand why I find it hard to answer questions related to neatly categorised projects.
There are four main people/organisations in this story, including me. I have high-trust long term relationships with the others -John (Nigeria), Graham (UK) and Sam (Kenya), and am trying to see if there is any useful overlap between them in the area of irrigation and recent changes in the rains. So, in this story I am simply connecting up some people who I know. In addition there may be other potential relevant collaborators - perhaps Appropedia or others we may find through Coaltion of the Willing (There is more background information to be found through the links below the list)
- There is me/Dadamac-UK-and-online - I am an information connection- not only in the area of climate change but regarding other UK-Africa information exchanges too. I am hoping so much that the techie brilliance that I see at work in CotW will help me to help information flow more effectively.
- There is John Dada/Dadamac-Nigeria/Fantsuam Foundation - he is experimenting with irrigation methods at Attachab - partly through general interest in permaculture and partly because of awareness of local changing weather patterns
- There is Graham Knight/Biodesign - who is trying to share information about irrigation methods
- There is Samwel Kongere - he is asking for help because of local changing weather patterns and drought in his area
I got replies from them on Monday - Ref saving water - and Climate Change - thanks Sam and Graham
Chasing up progress at Attachab with John is an agenda item for our Wednesday meeting - UK Nigeria team (and meetings)
The need is great and my response is puny. I hope CotW will help me to do more.
Pamela