Can Ethiopia Provide a Model for Climate Adaptation?
A successful women's farming initiative may serve as a good model for training other urban farmers on the continent when it comes to climate change adaptation.
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Sorry just I would like to say before i finish my comment on the story of climate change adapting Ethiopian women group model .the issue has been sent ,the word urban not meant as rural meant .
Mohammed Ahmed Biraima National Coordinator for Community Radio Project
Sudan e-mail beraima3@yahoo.com
Of course there is a solution to every problem and the fact is that Africans as the longest living humans on the face of the earth have always found solutions to problems with a changing environment. And for the last 5000 years the standard approach for dealing with climate, especially after the development of organized agriculture is infrastructure? So why are these NGOs and globalists organizations not pushing real development of infrastructure and economics which is a solution? Real pipes, real roads, running water and electricity are the "modern" solution but why are these clowns constantly coming up with nickel and dime gimmicks that do nothing to solve any problems. So wait you mean that a country like Ethiopia is going to develop by its people getting together and collecting firewood? Really. How come no developed country on this planet has followed such a model? Or maybe burning animal waste is the so called "key" to development? It is? No. Of course not. If that was the case they wouldn't practice a model of segregated economics where non Africans are given hundreds and hundreds of acres of land for free or pennies on the dollar to build huge plantations with modern technology, roads, electricity and so forth along with cheap African labor to farm it (sound familiar), but then turn right around and say Africans have to make due on tiny plots of land using stone age tools, gas from burnt animal feces and all sorts of other nonsense like that. Seriously. This is ridiculous.
I wonder why most people and organizations across the globe want to tell us about the problem(s) we vivdly know. I personally believe that we most Ethiopians live in abject poverty. However, that is not what interests me more at present. The people and government of Ethiopia are now in a different dimension of commitment and action in pursuing growth and development. Forget about the political complications and think about what is happening in this country in infrastructure development (road construction, railway, airport expansion, telecom services, power generation and transmission) expansion in education from primary to tirtiary levels,agricultural and health extension services in both rural and urban Ethiopia, in industrial devt. (textiles, defence, leather and garment, sugar, cement,...), progress in small and medium enterprise development, environmental protection and the target in building climate resilient economy, what the Ethiopian Airlines and Shipping lines are envisioned to destine, effort to restructure the civil service and urban development, you name it. the aggregate effect of all these and sustained growth and development is what the country and its citizens focused to achieve and it appears that we are in the right direction and the world is recognizing that. Pls therefore those of you who write about Ethiopia come and witness changes and our commitment rather than telling us a story which we have been reading for the last so many decades.
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