Dams, Water and Drainage Infrastructure Thread

[Yaquub]

Yeah. Only around 12% of Somalia is barren.
https://www.somalispot.com/threads/somalia-land-cover-and-degradation.40323/

How much land is arable?

 

[nine]

How much land is arable?

approximately 15%

 

[Yaquub]

approximately 15%

That's more than canada (facepalm) and these niggas are starving.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2097.html


Edit i need sources credible websites states that somalia has only 1.8% arable land

 

[Futurist]

Somaliland are starting to teach their nomads to convert from nomadism into agro-pastoralism. At the same time, Somaliland are starting to plant trees and cheap grasses from Europe which is good for their livestock and it doesn't need that much water so overall Somaliland is trying their best to combat drought and fix the environment.

whats an agro pastoralist?

 

[Futurist]

There need to be weekly tree planting programmes

 

[Factz]

whats an agro pastoralist?

A combination of farming and nomadism. So basically, they are nomads with livestock but they will plant grass and grains in a certain area for seasonal reasons then go to the next location where they will do the same and each season they move forward and back to location A to location B or location C while keeping the environment green and fertile.

 

[Factz]

The 100 thousand tree planting has already began as the local residents are helping to plant trees in Somaliland.

@DR OSMAN Looks like it's a legit news as Somaliland began the project and the president of Somaliland also joined the tree planting movement.

 

[Huncho]

In Gabiley city every newlywed couple plants a tree

 

[Futurist]

In Gabiley city every newlywed couple plants a tree

This should be compulsory everywhere

Also get the school kids and students to do it once per month

 

[waraabe]

This should be compulsory everywhere

Also get the school kids and students to do it once per month

the school kids planting trees should be made compulsory, once a month say the 26th of every month, all school kids plant trees


the newlyweds planting should also be encouraged, the ministry of deenta iyo awqaaftta should constantly encourage peeps and remind us all of the ajar that could be gained from planting trees and how much it can improve our environment

 

[Bernie Madoff]

mA looks like it’s almost complete.

 

[0117]

For those who want to contribute to such projects but don't know how to.
I recommend checking out this charity set up by Diaspora from the Horn https://rootworks.org/

 

[SirLancelLord]

Kulmiye is the party of the development. Can't wait till mujahid and vet biixi becomes the president, he is a strong advocate for economic development and that is one of his priorities

Kulmiye the party of development only for Galbeed Sacad Muse areas

 

[Aurelian]

View attachment 7457 @merka you forgot to mention that the dam was financed by UAE, we have to show that info to the SS here especially our friend @AbdiJohnson

I thought that they are finally doing something good

 

[ZodiaK]

Entrepreneurs help farmers hold back Somaliland’s desert

Diaspora money is starting to green a nation that has been neglected by many international donors

www.ft.com

Diaspora money is starting to green a nation that has been neglected by many international donors

Mustafa Duale grabs his binoculars to check on 450 camels grazing on what used to be barren land in western Somaliland — an unrecognised state in the Horn of Africa, between encroaching desert and the Gulf of Aden, which declared independence from Somalia in 1991. “Now the camels don’t have to walk for days, they have water and food right here,” says Duale, a community leader, livestock trader and water engineer.

Behind the camel herd, plantations of sorghum and watermelons are fenced by 1,000 mareer berry trees. “We are building an ecosystem,” Duale adds proudly. That may seem an extravagant claim for such dry and harsh terrain. But Duale has earned the right to make it. Marshalling money from private citizens, he built a 45,000 cubic metres bali, or water reservoir, and ancillary drip irrigation system that, since 2017, has been watering the crops and livestock of 600 people by the village of Qoolcadey.

Across the road, where no water system is in place, barren land stretches to the horizon. “Before, this area was like that,” says Duale. “The community needs this, the livestock needs this. If we don’t build reservoirs ourselves, desertification will advance. We used to send the camels to Ethiopia for grazing; now we can do it here. Without water, there’d be nothing here.

Lifeline: the reservoir that Duale built in Qoolcadey. ‘We are building an ecosystem,’ he says © Mustafa Duale

Entrepreneurs such as Duale are drawing on diaspora and local private funding to create reservoirs for rainwater that can transform the rural economy — an approach that makes sustainable food production possible, and enables subsistence herders and farmers to stand their ground against climate change. Much of Somaliland is arid, with areas receiving “as little as” 150mm of rainfall a year, explains Ahmed Esa, president and water expert at Abaarso Tech University in Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital. Earlier this year, the UN warned of “alarming water shortages” in parts of the nation as consecutive rains have failed....

 

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