Activities and events

Water is one of the most affected commodities by the effects of climate change due to high temperatures and prolongs droughts. Water points and sources are disappearing making it difficult for the Baka and Mbororo indigenous people to access clean water due to the fact that the remaining water points is a scramble area for humans and animals making the water dirty and not […]

The Baka Pygmies who embrace farming as an alternative livelihoods option to the already disappearing traditional hunting and gathering hampered by the impacts of climate change. The Baka Pygmies of Djoum particularly women has embraced farming as a livelihood that is sustainable and profitable with enough food for family and community consumption. The surplus is sold in the market in Djoum to acquire other household needs and also pay school […]

Due to the effects of climate change on the Pastoralists brought by high temperature and hash weather conditions with the appearance of strange plants on pastoral land which is not consumed by cattle and thus reducing the land available for grazing, the drying up of streams and rivers, increase cattle and human diseases. The Pastoralists has adopted other means of grazing […]

In the past four decades, the dependency of the forest Baka pygmies of Djoum and the Mbororo pastoralist of Ngorin,  has been depending on natural resources as their main source of livelihoods. These livelihoods nowadays are continuously being affected by the impacts of climate change in retarding social and inclusive development towards the self-determination. The human and natural factors as high temperatures and prolong drought every year, variability of the climate, low rains, erosion, […]