{"id":4417,"date":"2023-04-19T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:26:14","slug":"where-climate-change-takes-away-life-and-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/where-climate-change-takes-away-life-and-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Climate Change Takes Away Life and Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Palwashay Arbab and Salman Rashid<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Umerkot\u2019s Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long before the dreaded phrase \u2018climate change\u2019 hit the world, Umerkot\u2014a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan\u2014was blessed with regular rains and seasonal crops grew. But since the mid-1980s rainfall has been irregular, with a couple of good years only every five or six years. Of late, the good years have become rarer and rarer. For the people of&nbsp;Umerkot, drought is not only a total lack of rain, but also untimely rains that cause seed to wither away without sprouting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers who could be called prosperous in the desert setting only five decades ago,&nbsp;have&nbsp;been reduced to sharecroppers who migrate seasonally to the irrigated parts of the district to work for cash.&nbsp;Others became day labourers on construction sites and in factories in&nbsp;bigger cities in the province.&nbsp;But labour is irregular and those who have found daily work are fortunate. At home, hunger and unmet basic needs&nbsp;have&nbsp;stalked their loved ones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past four decades, migration in the face of drought has been a regular feature for desert communities. Because of natural disasters, including climate change, they&nbsp;have&nbsp;suffered huge losses in terms of crops, livestock and sometimes even human lives. In this context, mitigation strategies are necessary\u2014to build resilience to the worsening conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Narsingh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Narsingh, about 80 years old and completely worn out by the hard desert life, calls&nbsp;Umerkot&nbsp;home. He remembers the good days when rains fell as they had always fallen in July. In anticipation, everyone would sow their guar&nbsp;beans, millets and mung&nbsp;seeds two weeks earlier. Seeds would sprout from the rain drenched sand. In those days, an acre rendered as much as 1,600 kilograms of guar and about 800 kilos of millets, says Narsingh. He raises his eyes heavenward as if silently petitioning God to bring back those days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the 1990s, droughts became more common. There&nbsp;were&nbsp;years when no rain fell at all or when it came too late. For desert farmers, late rains&nbsp;are&nbsp;the same as no rain at all because sowing more than eight weeks earlier means&nbsp;very little sprouting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8143-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4419\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.499267935578331;width:499px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8143-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8143-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8143-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8143-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pwsd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8143-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Narsingh and his son, Jethamal, share how climate change has affected farming in their community.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his 30s, Jethamal,&nbsp;Narsingh\u2019s son,&nbsp;has only heard of the good times. He has only known erratic rainfall, a far cry from the regular and timely ones that the elders speak of. He has never harvested more than 400 kilograms of millets from an acre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the old days, Narsingh\u2019s generation was able to keep enough of the harvest for the family to eat, with plenty left to sell in local markets. The idea that farmers would have enough to sell for cash is an alien though. Now, says Jethamal, area farmers don\u2019t have enough to last more than two or three months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe year 2019 was good with timely and sufficient rains,\u201d recalls Jethamal. The crops were coming along nicely but then the locust attack occurred and, he says, there was not enough ground to walk without crushing dozens of them with every step. According to the United Nations, the hotter temperatures caused by climate change help to create more damaging locust swarms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rains fell on time and the harvest was reasonable in 2020. But in 2021, the month of Savan (mid-July to mid-August) went dry. The deluge came after mid-September when it was too late for the seed sowed three months earlier to sprout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As climate reality hits\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many areas of southern Umerkot have\u00a0been\u00a0affected by climate change, particularly by droughts for many years now. This has hugely impacted the communities\u2019 food security, health and increased overall poverty. With PWS&amp;D&#8217;s support, our local partner has\u00a0selected\u00a0specific\u00a0areas which are\u00a0recorded at\u00a0IPC level 4, which indicates\u00a0an\u00a0emergency situation for food security and livelihoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most\u00a0families\u00a0in these areas have been unable to cultivate their lands due to\u00a0lack of resources. Now, with the support from local partners and PWS&amp;D, these drought-hit communities have been able to\u00a0cultivate lands using the knowledge and resources they have gained\u00a0through the project, as well as with the help of rains in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>PWS&amp;D and Canadian Foodgrains Bank are supporting the HERD (Humanitarian Assistance, Early Recovery and Development) project implemented by our local partner in Pakistan. This project is providing families with food packages, livestock and seasonal seeds for cultivation, and training for farmers. In addition, women artisans are enhancing their embroidery skills and learning product development and marketing to help diversify income streams and reduce dependency on agriculture, which is subject to increasingly erratic weather patterns.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*This story was first printed in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/presbyterian-connection\/\">Spring 202<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/presbyterian-connection\/\"><em>3<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;issue of Presbyterian Connection newspaper.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Palwashay Arbab and Salman Rashid Umerkot\u2019s Story Long before the dreaded phrase \u2018climate change\u2019 hit the world, Umerkot\u2014a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan\u2014was blessed with regular rains and seasonal crops grew. But since the mid-1980s rainfall has been irregular, with a couple of good years only every five or six years. 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