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    Farmers in Southern Africa may see maize crop yields fall by 30% by 2030 due to climate change impacts like changing rainfall and temperature patterns. Farmers can adapt through techniques like new irrigation systems, drought-resistant crops, and shade trees. In Gambia, adaptations like improved water harvesting, storing seeds, and reducing fertilizer use have increased food security. Coastal communities face risks from rising sea levels. The Maldives is constructing sea walls, restoring mangroves, and building artificial islands to cope with these threats. Careful water management techniques like drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, and desalination plants are needed to address problems like more severe droughts and floods. An artificial glacier project in the

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    Farmers in Southern Africa may see maize crop yields fall by 30% by 2030 due to climate change impacts like changing rainfall and temperature patterns. Farmers can adapt through techniques like new irrigation systems, drought-resistant crops, and shade trees. In Gambia, adaptations like improved water harvesting, storing seeds, and reducing fertilizer use have increased food security. Coastal communities face risks from rising sea levels. The Maldives is constructing sea walls, restoring mangroves, and building artificial islands to cope with these threats. Careful water management techniques like drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, and desalination plants are needed to address problems like more severe droughts and floods. An artificial glacier project in the

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    Farmers in Southern Africa may see maize crop yields fall by 30% by 2030 due to climate change impacts like changing rainfall and temperature patterns. Farmers can adapt through techniques like new irrigation systems, drought-resistant crops, and shade trees. In Gambia, adaptations like improved water harvesting, storing seeds, and reducing fertilizer use have increased food security. Coastal communities face risks from rising sea levels. The Maldives is constructing sea walls, restoring mangroves, and building artificial islands to cope with these threats. Careful water management techniques like drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, and desalination plants are needed to address problems like more severe droughts and floods. An artificial glacier project in the

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    ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE

    AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION
    Scientists believe, particularly in low latitudes, climate change will have a huge impact on
    agriculture. Southern Africa’s maize crop could fall by 30% by 2030
    (patterns of rainfall and temperature, extreme weather, distributions of pests and diseases)

    farmers can adapt to new conditions: new irrigation systems, educating farmers in water
    harvesting techniques, drought-resistant strains of crops, shade trees planted to protect
    seedlings, new cropping patterns

    In Gambia, chemical fertilisers have been reduced, improved water harvesting such as dams and
    pits store water for long periods, and places to store seeds introduced ro help with unpredicted
    rainfall
    Affordable, simple technology, increased food security
    Knowledge of techniques needed

    REDUCING RISKS FROM RISING SEA LEVELS

    erosion of beaches, increased salinity in water supplies and submerging islands


    sea levels risen 20cm since 1900
    The Maldives, low lying islands, have adopted practical strategies
    construction of sea walls- a 3m wall around the capital Male
    restoration of coastal mangrove forests- tangled roots trap sediments
    contstruction of artificial islands and houses raised on stilts
    population could be relocated to India/Sri Lanka
    -stops flooding and people can easily be relocated at heights
    -expensive and lots of resources needed, some fixes are short-term

    MANAGING WATER SUPPLY

    more severe and frequent droughts and floods, as well as periods of water shortage,
    require careful management

    drip irrigation (allowing water to drip slowly from roots of plants)


    rainwater harvesting- the collection and storage of rain
    constructing plants to desalinise water
    The Himalayas in Asia depend on snow and glacial melt; 16000 glaciers are receding
    rapidly affecting long-term water security
    an artificial glacier project is undergoing to supply water in villages
    system of diversion canals and embankments used so water freezes, uses local
    materials
    high maintenance work needed
    can minimise water loss and also save it

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