The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Ghana), has engaged the Tong and Bagli communities in some homestead activities to help them improve their climatic and social resilience.
The activity, which had young men go through sustainable tree planting techniques such as eye brow and micro trench techniques for tree planting were excited, as they highly participated in the various exercises.
The eye brow and micro trench technologies help to conserve water that provide adequate moisture for the sustenance of the trees.
Other homestead resilience activities implemented were the construction of improved stoves that require minimum fuel for cooking, as it minimizes emission into the atmosphere.
The improved stove also helps in reducing deforestation because of the minimal fuel required by the stove for cooking.
Beneficiary vegetable gardens were also supervised and provided technical agronomic advice as part of building resilience.
By close of the year it is expected that a minimum of 3000 households should have planted at least a mango, moringa, acacia, cashew, orange, pawpaw, and other economic trees, each household should have improve energy consumption stoves, vegetable gardens, hydroponic for ruminants, and other homestead technologies.
The DFAT Project being implemented in communities for sustainable environment and climate resilience in rural communities is funded by the World Food Programme.
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