Tag: climate adaptation

Counting on … day 131

29th  August 2025

Climate adaptation means altering the way we live, how we build new or retrofit existing buildings, how we farm and what crops and  plants, the diets we eat, how shape drainage systems and flood defences, how we conserve limited water supplies   – basically how we adapt our  lifestyles and infrastructure so that we can cope with the ‘new normal’ climates.  

The quicker and more effectively we mitigate against climate change, the easier it will be to put in place adaptations that will meet both our needs and those of future generations.

For previous articles on adaptation, see https://greentau.org/tag/adaptation/page/2/

 Counting on …day 321

27th September 2022

Whilst governments push (or not) for a Loss and Damage fund, we as individuals can help the more uk era leaders to adapt to climate change through our support of charities. Practical Action has been doing this in Zimbabwe. There an extended drought was this spring followed by torrential rains such that this year’s maize harvest is 45% smaller than last year’s. Practical Action has been promoting a small scale method of farming – ‘pfumyudza’ – that enables a family to grow enough maize for a year from a 16th of a hectare. One mother of three reports: “Before the training [in conservation agriculture], I could barely feed my family but now I am harvesting an average of three tonnes of maize on a smaller piece of land than I used to grow.” “From my first year of using Pfumvudza as a way of farming, and demonstrating it to others in the village, my crops never failed. The rainfall was erratic as usual but we got a good harvest.” (https://www.greenfriends.org.uk/pfumvudza-transforming-zimbabwe/