Community Seminars Held to Share Research Results

For over three years, the CHIESA project has had its researchers working in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Samples have been collected, lab analyses have been done, numerous training sessions held and papers published. While all these activities have proved necessary and worthwhile for the researchers involved, just how have the targeted communities, and farmers in particular, benefitted from all this?

Participants of the CHIESA Community Seminar on Climate Change adaptation in Moshi, Tanzania.

Of its many objectives, the CHIESA Project’s key aim is to “fill knowledge gaps related to natural and human-induced factors contributing to land use/ land cover change, and climate variability/ change impacts on ecosystem services and food security in Eastern Africa’s mountain ecosystems”. With this in mind, the project hosted and facilitated two one-day events in Moshi, Tanzania and Wundanyi, Kenya, dubbed ‘Community Seminar on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation’, held on the 16^th and 18^th September, 2014, respectively. The seminars took place at the Uhuru Lutheran Hotel in Moshi, and at the Lavender Garden Hotel in Wundanyi.

Participants of the CHIESA Community Seminar on Climate Change adaptation in Wundanyi, Kenya.

Featuring audiences made up of farmers, agricultural extension officers and representatives from agriculture ministries in Kenya and Tanzania, project researchers delivered detailed presentations of their research results so far, as well as offered practical solutions for common farm problems.

Part of CHIESA’s goal is to ensure that the public and private sectors are adequately informed and have enhanced capacity for adaptation to and monitoring of climate change, partnership with journalists in documentation and dissemination of project activities and results to stakeholders is necessary. As such, journalists from various media houses and specialties were in attendance to interview farmers on actual climate change impacts felt, and the strategies adopted to minimize or eliminate them.

    

 

To view the presentations shared at both seminars, please click on the links below. Kindly note that the presentations are in Kiswahili.

 

Presentations made in Moshi, Tanzania:

Athari za Mabadiliko ya Tabia Nchi kwa Wadudu Waharibufu wa Mahindi Katika Miinuko ya Mlima Kilimanjaro

Athari za Mabadiliko ya Tabia Nchi kwenye Kilimo cha Maparachichi katika Miteremko ya Mlima Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Changamoto za Mabadiliko ya Tabia Nchi katika Kilimo Endelevu cha Mboga Jamii ya Kabichi Kwenye Miteremko ya Mlima Kilimanjaro

Mabadiliko ya Rutuba na Uoto wa Miti Sambamba na Mwinuko

Mapendekezo Jinsi ya Kuboresha Rutuba ya Mashamba ya Kuzalisha Mahindi Kilimanjaro

Mfumo Asilia wa Utabiri na Usambazaji wa Taarifa za Hali ya Hewa; Changamoto na Fursa Zilizopo katika Wilaya ya Moshi Vijijini

Mwelekeo wa Kubuni Mkakati Madhubuti Utakaotumika kama Kigezo cha Maamuzi Kuhusu Udhibiti wa Vimatira na Bungua Weupe wa Shina Kati

 

Presentations made in Wundanyi, Kenya:

Aina za Wadudu Wanaotembelea Maua ya Maparachichi na Mbinu za Kuwahifadhi Katika Miteremko ya Vilima vya Taita

Athari za Mabadiliko ya Tabia Nchi kwa Wadudu Waharibufu wa Mahindi Katika Vilima vya Taita

Athari za Mabadiliko ya Tabia Nchi Kwenye Kilimo cha Maparachichi Katika Miunuko ya Vilima vya Taita_Kenya

Changamoto za Mabadiliko ya Tabia Nchi Katika Kilimo Endelevu cha Mboga Jamii ya Kabichi Kwenye Milima ya Taita

Mapendekezo Jinsi ya Kuboresha Rutuba ya Mashamba ya Kuzalisha Mahindi Taita

Strategies for Restoration of Soil Organic Carbon Fertility to Degraded Croplands in Taita Hills

Utambuzi wa Mazao kwa kutumia Data za Hyper Spectra na Kutabiri Maeneo Yanayofaa kwa Kilimo