Unsustainable Farming
Harms Land, Soil and Waterprompting farmers to exhaust resources quickly, reducing productivity and ecosystem services.
About The People’s Science Centre
Unsustainable Exploitation
has pushed indigenous communities to the brink. To reverse the degradation of nature, MANT proposes to restore ecosystem functions and make communities resilient to market and climate shocks. And so it sets up “The People Science Centre’s (PSC)” with the aim to empower communities with science and their development indicators.
The interventions will focus on marginalized and vulnerable groups who depend on ecosystems services
for subsistence and survival.
MANT’s community media initiatives have created awareness of climate change, environment, and public health especially fevers like malaria. To translate ideas into action requires institutionalized dissemination backed with hands-on local implementation.
The proposed PSC will train local youth, farmers, and women’s groups to conserve local resources and adopt Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices. The PSC will arm the community to mitigate risks against future crop failures, outbreaks of human, animals and crops diseases, and ensure health of soil, water, flora and fauna. MANT will empower local communities to develop a village-based and ecosystem-specific mitigation and adaptation plan to counter challenges of climate change. The PSC will be a place for learning, idea exchange and application of practical measures to mitigate multiple emerging threats to local communities.