If You Can’t Beat it, Adapt to it
In Bara, a locality in North Kordofan
that encompasses 90 tiny villages, the greenery
can be deceptive. The flat desert sprawls for
miles around, dotted with tiny villages where
the only colors to be seen are the bright clothes
of women coming back from their weekly trip to
the central market of Bara town.
A group of women is all smiles as they go through
their record books and count the revenue gained
from their community’s horticultural gardens
and livestock production. These activities have
offered them major opportunities to promote food
security and improve their livelihoods, a big
contrast from the past, when women had less economic
value.
“We succeeded. Women are keener than
men on community-related matters. Managing horticultural
gardens is mostly done by women as men and youth
are engaged in the gold mining rush currently
flaring up in a number of places in North Kordofan
and elsewhere in the country.” Says Igbal
Bakri, a 49-year old mother of three children
and head of the women’s village committee.
In the past few years, communities have been suffering
from the effects of climate change, resulting
in increased heat, dune encroachment, water scarcity,
and diminishing crop yields and livestock production
year after year. ...
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