このマワウィ人は何をしているのでしょう？

このマラウイ人は何をやっていると思いますか？　

昨日、マラウイのリロングウェでこの写真を撮りました。彼はさびた自転車で自身の二倍の薪を運んでいます。彼は車で1時間の距離のDzalanyama森林保護区から木を取っています。さらに驚くべきことに、5秒から10秒おきに同じような人たちを見ます。毎日、どれほどの木が伐採されているか想像してみてください。

嫌になりますが、アフリカの多くの地域で同様の問題があり、もっと悪いことがあります。エチオピアのアディスアベバで数年前にこの映像を取りました。女性、女性だけが、自分よりはるかに大きい薪を担いで私たちの車を2秒ごとに通り過ぎます。　http://1drv.ms/1Kk2aof また、薪での料理は、毎年マラリアとHIV /エイズを合わせた数より多くの人々を殺します。すなわち430万人 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/

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What do you think this Malawian man is doing?

I took this photo near Lilongwe, Malawi, yesterday. He is carrying firewood which is twice as much as himself with his rusty bicycle. He is taking wood from Dzalanyama forest reserve where 1 hour away from here by car. More surprisingly, you will see them every 5 or 10 seconds. Imagine how much trees are chopped everyday!


Disturbing, but you see a similar problem in many parts of Africa and can be worse. I took this movie several years ago near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. http://1drv.ms/1Kk2aof Every 2 seconds, women and only women are passing our car with firewood which is much much bigger than themselves. Moreover, firewood cooking kills more people than malaria and HIV/AIDS together every year, i.e. 4.3 million people. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/

So, firewood cooking is not only energy issue, but also deforestation, gender, and health issues. A solder protecting Dzalanyama forest was killed recently.... It is difficult to stop this without an alternative. Clean cooking stoves will be a solution for this complex problem. I am here to help a Kenyan girl to assess the impact of cooking stoves and find its solution. Will see!

一年前に、ナイロビで描いた気候変動脆弱性評価マトリックス

ナイロビでは、一つの壁紙が完璧な笑いをくれました。プロジェクトリーダーのステーブは彼のオフィスの壁からすべてのポスターを取り払いましたが、私は昨年描いた脆弱性マトリックスをまだ壁の張っていたのです。「昨年のトレーニングセッションで、私はいろんなこと学んだので、その記憶を思い出させるためにマトリックスを張っておいています」と言っていました。

この絵画はプライスレスになりました。もし、この脆弱性評価方法にご興味がありましたらご連絡ください。

At Nairobi, a wall paper made a perfect of laugh and smile on my face. Stave, the project leader, removed all posters from the wall of his office, but he still puts up the vulnerability matrix I draw last year. He told me "I learnt so much while we had a training session last year, so I put the matrix there to remind me the memory".

The drawing became priceless for me.  Please let me know if you are interested in learning this vulnerability assessment method.

もっとカカオ・ニュース！More Cacao news! Bali Cacao Climate Change Adaptation:

もっとカカオ・ニュース！今のアフリカのミッションの後、光速で、スラウェシ・カカオプロジェクトの姉妹プロジェクトになるカカオ・バリ気候変動適応プロジェクトを開始します。私たちはカカオ農家の脆弱性を見つけるだけでなく、トレーニングを行い、財政的支援します。まだまだ、来ますよ！欧州委員会だけでなく、2つのケースのこれらの活動は、日本政府によって資金を供給されています。日本政府からの支援は、二つの日本の新聞に掲載されました。興味がある方は、どしどし連絡してください。

Change Adaptation project which will be a sister project of the Sulawesi Cacao project. We will not only find the vulnerability of cacao farmers, but also will do trainings and provide financial support. More will be coming! As well as European Commission, these activities in the two cases are funded by Japanese government. The support from Japanese government was published in two Japanese newspapers. If you are interested, let me know.

Simple vulnerability assessment on climate change: Drawing with kids

My two sons (age 5 and 9) asked me "what is your job?"  So, I decided to demonstrate one of my favourite job, such as capacity development.  Also, I would like to educate climate change to my children as their capacity development. As we live in Bali, Indonesia, I made a drawing activity on "climate change vulnerability in Bali." This was designed for kids, but its concept and approach should work as facilitating a rapid vulnerability assessment for climate change, generally.

1. Identifying potential disasters (Exposure assessment)

First, we talked about weather in Bali and I asked my sons what were problems related to weather in Bali.   I helped them a bit, but listed "big wind", "rain", "waves", "earthquake", etc.    After a bit of discussion, we picked "rain" and "waves".

2. Identify who and how the disasters affect (Sensitivity assessment)

Then, we discussed who and how people are affected by "rain" and "waves."  They mentioned "rain gives water to drink", " with rain, plants can grow", "People cannot go fishing when there is big waves", and "surfing!"  

3. Mapping the issues (Impact assessment)

So, I asked them to draw stories about the rain and waves.  

The first son (9 year old) son drew rainfall, farmers planting, and people drinking water. Trees are growing high and everyone are happy as they have so much water to drink.  But, one person seems unhappy.  He can be me as I may also not so happy in the rain.  

The second son (5 year old) son drew waves, surfers, and fisherman.  Sun is shining and there is a huge wave, so surfers are happy even they fall.  A huge wave is not a problem for surfers. A fisherman also fell down from the big wave and he is not smiling.  This is a problem for the fisherman. 

With the drawing we could connect the disasters and people affected, so we can see the impacts in the drawings.  Also, they know that the same disaster will affect different people differently, e.g. surfer and fisherman.

5. What is going to happen in the future (future projection)

I told them what is the future situation in Bali.  This was difficult as little children do not understand probability and uncertainty.  I also did not want to be an alarmist to scare them.  I have had similar experiences when I worked in rural areas for research and training.  

Anyway, I told them that Bali was getting fewer rainfall in the last 20 years (Takama, et. al. 2014) and Bali will face the most severe water scarcity in Indonesia (KLH, 2010).  Also, I told them that waves can be stronger in the future (shorter wave height, but longer wave period) (Hemer, et. al. 2013). 

4. What will be a solution (adaptation assessment)

Then, we discussed what they can do about it.   As they are small children, their suggestions may not be realistic, but some are quite innovative.  For example, they thought if there was no water from rain, people needed to get water from the ocean.  Also, they also thought vegetarians would be affected if there is no rain and no plants.  So, they thought vegetarians may need to eat some meat.  There are practical solutions as well such as "a fisherman needs to find a place waves are small!". 

 Conclusion 

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