Adaptation Actions

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117 - Follow and act on Meteo climate advisories: el Niño la Niña
118 - Plant yams before the onset of a major drought event
119 - Plant island cabbage every 2 months to ensure that seasonality will not affect all plants at all stages of cabbage growth
120 - Relocate garden site to more moist/shaded area
121 - Allow several years of garden fallow before replanting in the same area
122 - Use permaculture in order to continuously protect soils from excessive drying and overheating
123 - Do not burn gardens as cleaning methods, rather weed and leave grass as a mulch to hold soil moisture and nutrients
124 - Avoid Garden clearing or maintenance to allow moisture retention
125 - Use multiple farming systems (mulching, alley cropping, mix planting etc)
126 - Plant water sensitive/needy plants around water giving plants like nangalat and banana
127 - Remove all but two young banana shoots away from the mother tree and replant in a different area (to relieve water stress during dry seasons)
163 - Utilize appropriate building materials for livestock enclosres that can withstand climtic extremes
434 - Germinate vulnerable seeds in controlled conditions (nurseries)
446 - Use antibiotics to treat the Charolais Bullock eyelid sores problem due to sunlight overexposure
447 - Avoid sunlight vulnerable varieties of bullock like Charolais
448 - Encourage sunlight tolerant varieties of bullock like Brahman mixes
449 - Ensure that Charolais variety is placed in the shade during the hottest and sunniest parts of the day.
450 - Cross Charolais with Brahman to develop tolerance to high light intensity.
451 - Place bullock in shade trees for middle day times, while morning and afternoon time are best for feeding in open pastures