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World Environment Day 2024: Humanity depends on land to survive
05-06-2024
We are the generation that can make peace with land, save planet earth and protect the natural habitat. Every year, environment degradation is reversing gains made in advancing humanity; people suffering the most are those who have least contributed to the problem.
Humana People to People joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Environment Day. For the past close to 30 years Humana People to People has supported over 300,000 smallholder farmers to increase food production and build their resilience against climate shocks. We acknowledge that adapting to climate change and ensuring food security require dynamic approaches that are in harmony with sound ecological conservation and contribute to human-nature symbiotic co-existence.
The World Environment Day 2024 theme is “Land restoration, desertification, and drought resilience.” The event is occurring at a time when the planet and its humanity is enduring existential threats. Climate change and biodiversity loss are cordially intertwined. Tackling negative effects of climate change will require a holistic approach and transformations not only in awareness raising, but also in how people on the globe produce food, how we people live our lives, how societies are utilising the scarce resources available and sparing some for the future generations.
Rural communities around the world are facing environmental disparities that are impacting food security, health and well-being of the people living in the rural areas. Many of the people earning a living in the rural communities have their lives directly linked to the land and its natural resources. Rural communities need support to ensure they build climate resilience against the onslaught of climate change on their smallholder farming activities.
Farmers’ Clubs is a sustainable agriculture and environment protection concept designed and developed by Humana People to People following the need for a people-centred and community-led farming approach in the wake of climate change. Members of Humana People to People work with rural communities to take an active role in environmental conservation as they carry out farming.
Conservation agriculture is at the centre of various sustainable practices which target adoption of minimum soil disturbance, promotion of healthy environmental ecologies and efficient utilisation of water for all year horticulture production. Collaborative efforts between farmers, local government structures, and environmental organisations are integrated to ensure strengthening the resilience of rural communities.
Humana People to People appreciates the role rural communities have in entrenching social cohesion, building lasting bonds and ensuring trust in mutual learning, all taking place in a collective organised structure. The Farmers’ Clubs organise smallholder farmers in groups of 50 who work collectively in sharing their knowledge, receive trainings, and go for exchange visits that expose them to new ways of farming.
A demonstration plot is their platform of learning as a group which they use to carry out practical farming experiments, as they translate what they learn through theory to generate observable transformations.
Most of the climate resilient adaptations strategies are demonstrated in the demonstration plot, among them growing drought resistant crop varieties such as small grains, intercropping, pot-holing, mulching, organic soil fertility enrichment, among others.
