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If you’re like most of my readers, you’re already trying to save our planet. Thank you!

You’re aware of the dangers of achieving human development at the cost of our environment and want this to end. But you’re not just waiting to take action at some later time. You know now is the time for emergency action:

Fast transition to zero emissions

100% renewable energy

Energy efficiency

Reducing waste

Green growth in developing countries

You’re after immediate restoration of a safe climate at emergency speed. And that really matters. Ensuring immediate safe climate is the only way we can protect our own lives and those of the people we care about.

But the transformation’s slow, isn’t it?

The earth is already too hot. People and the natural world are already suffering. But most greening efforts around the world still remain incomplete. Harmful systems are still in operation which risks millions of lives.

This is because these systems are essential for maintaining human development in already developed nations and bringing about the much needed human development in the undeveloped ones.

For the needed urgent transformation, this cannot continue. Greening efforts must become better human development efforts.  Incomplete greening of our production systems and the economy risks more lives.  We still increase emissions and environmental damage despite adoption of clean systems. 

In Africa the people’s underdevelopment makes them vulnerable to global warming. Climate and weather shocks are greatly intensifying the already present problems that the African people have faced for years. Global warming is a threat multiplier for poverty, famine, disease, conflict and mass migration

In Uganda the people are in urgent need of both modernization and greening efforts to become resilient to global warming. So far these two efforts still operate separately and are both incomplete. This has resulted into recurring vulnerability, increased suffering of people and wasted funds.

To bring about a permanent transformation in undeveloped countries, human development needs to reverse global warming so as to reach negative emissions as fast as humanly possible. Modernization efforts must be greening efforts and greening efforts modernization efforts.

Recurring vulnerability to climate shocks in Uganda.

Last year I got a two months job in an extension service program in Kamwenge a rural district in Uganda where over 95% of the local people are subsistence farmers. There was one road into the village and one road out and it took four hours to get to anywhere bigger.

I was brought in with others to help interest the farmers into adopting new improved maize varieties which were more drought resistant. There had been long droughts leading to famine in the previous years and this was a way for government to do something about it.

The locals are among the most vulnerable people to climate change as reported by the people who have died each year due to famine caused by long droughts. When I got there, I realized it wasn’t only that they used poor varieties; they had a poor production system!

Their crop husbandry was outdated, their hand tools were just basic, very old, slow and hard to use. They mainly produced for home consumption, never had pest or disease control and couldn’t afford storage or marketing for their produce. As a result after each harvesting, the excess of gets wasted.

The repeated vulnerability was not because they didn’t plant the new varieties! It was because, on top of the improved varieties, they needed upgrades in other areas of their production to really benefit. “We plant the seed.” One farmer told me, “But the dry soil can’t let it germinate.” Even when provided by an upgrade like improved varieties, this farmer also needed improvement in areas such as irrigation.

From many testimonies from the farmers it was clear that many barriers due to traditional ways of production stood in their way. Despite one or two improvements these barriers kept the yields very low and the people vulnerable.

I realized that the only way to end their vulnerability to the climate shocks was to use one effort to provide all the improvements needed for a green modernization of their production: A complete green modernization effort.

Can we work together to end recurring vulnerability?

Since last year, I have been petitioning the Ugandan government to get funds for such a project but I have had no breakthrough yet. I have created this blog as a proposal to find a supporter who can provide me with the funds to start it. Then I will use the progress and impacts from the launch as the proof of concept to showcase for government support.

I humbly ask for your help. To end the suffering and death of poor Ugandan’s living in rural areas and slums due to global warming which is increasing at an alarming rate. Climate shocks are becoming stronger and more frequent and this project that modernizes how the people produce using green growth can increase their income, their livelihoods and their resilience while restoring a safer climate.

Please download the details on how you can help permanently reduce vulnerability to global warming in the Ugandan poor by supporting the formation of a green modernisation project.  And you can email me now at kngabirano1@gmail.com  or chat with me today on my Facebook Profile. I will immediately reply with answers to any questions.