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practices, they have been doing it for decades!). Small producers should not be at the end of the process, waiting for a proposed or imposed solution…..If this is the way things will be done, it will be a complete failure! Elisabeth Pitteloud Swiss Development Agency Food Security, DRR and Water 35. Ignatius Onimawo from the Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria Dear Moderator, My main concern on this discussion on climate change and food security is in the areas of some developing countries with poor weather forecast and meteorological services. Many developing countries still largely depend on rain fed agriculture. In fact in some cases the farmers who are used to planting their crops in a particular month of the year which corresponds to the onset of rains have not understood the problems of climate change. These farmers still plant their crops expecting the rains to come but have found that the rains simply refuse to come during such months. When eventually the rains come they come in torrents leading to heavy flooding. All these have serious adverse consequences both on food and nutrition security of many farming households. This is particularly true in Nigeria. There is the need to emphasize early and timely dissemination of information on weather forecast to farmers as part of the extension system. The extension workers themselves need to be trained in order to effectively disseminate such information. Prof Ignatius Onimawo President Nutrition Society of Nigeria Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria 36. Raymond Erick Zvavanyange from the National Chung Hsing University of Taiwan, Taiwan Province of China Dear Moderator The scope is appropriate. I partially agree with the contribution from Alberto Saldamando in which the contributor briefly touched on effects from industries. This is a silent issue which cuts across several themes that this forum has addressed (and will address in future). Seen in another way, it's industries on one side and local communities on the other. The objective is obviously not to replace one system by the other but possibly to have a leveraging point. In my opinion putting emphasis on the recommendations from available funded and non-funded studies which focused on climate change and food security in the vulnerable regions and people can form a good foundation for drafting of effective policies. 37. David Steane from Thailand Dear Sir, May I suggest that the study looks at the implications for livestock production systems and breeding programmes given that the feed crops available, crop residues and their bi-products will change in different areas and also the animal breeding programmes will need to take such changes into account in order to provide security. The integration of all aspects will surely __________________________________ Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition http://km.fao.org/fsn 26
provide difficulties but is crucial if politicians are to be guided to realize that there are no silver bullets, Kind regards, David Steane 38. Gladson Makowa from the Story Workshop, Malawi What I observed, and scientists do agree is that the vegetation and some land features were made well suited to the amount and intensity of rains which an area receives. Where we have high intensity we had very big canopy to encourage infiltration. Since we have damaged some of these features, hence the Climate change is felt in the hard way. I think we can bring in innovations in order to have sustainable food security. We should think of conserving nonarable land, to plant trees and in many cases just allow regeneration, and not what others are doing clearing natural vegetation to plant exotic tree in the name of conserving. Secondly let’s concentrate on soil fertility replenishment and intensive farming. Small holder farmers should harvest enough from reasonably small land and leave the other to regenerate. They should manage to add manure for soil replenishment and water harvesting. I think after damaging the natural canopy, we need to seriously think of water harvesting, using appropriate technologies and not the plastics. I mean simply stopping water to soak into the soil, and reduce runoffs which are resulting into erosion and latter flooding. Simple structures like contour ridges, pits, manure, mulching and others can harvest water and do the magic in times of droughts and reduce flooding significantly. Remember where there are more canopies there was so much manure made from the leaves which was also making our soils porous, but all this is damaged. In Malawi we have a saying, “Rivers fill up and floods with the water coming from small streams in the foot paths and streets”. Therefore, these same methods will make irrigation a possibility. They need investment in the same way western farmers do on their farms, that is if we are to mitigate and adapt very soon to climate change. Because farmers are aware of effects and sign of climate change, now is the best time than ever before. Gladson Makowa 39. Marja-Liisa Tapio-Bistrom from FAO, Italy 1. Assessing direct and indirect impacts of climate change on food security and nutrition My first reaction to this chapter 1. was that the disagregation of data and analysis on gender, income strata, region, rural/urban would be important but you deal it in chapter 2. c – Uncertainty issues: Here you have only mentioned bio-physical uncertainties 2. Identifying vulnerable regions and populations b –The most affected and vulnerable populations Identifying vulnerable populations by assessing impacts, including socio-environmental vulnerability, of climate change on different socio-economic groups: woman, infant, elder Add: income strata, rural, urban c- Uncertainties __________________________________ Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition http://km.fao.org/fsn 27
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