The Mbura experiment
For rural sub-Saharan communities, our experiment offers a localized approach to climate change information dissemination, empowering them with agroforestry practices to adapt
What is Mbura!
(pronounced buˈra) For some Kenyan natives it means rain. This meaning extends across the continent, represented in various languages. With limited rainfall comes limited food. A challenge that echoes across the continent.
Indigenous identity in Africa was often tied to the natural environment, with influence on community (including through the naming of children) and land management. An example is the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya that prayed for mbura (rain) facing Mt. Kenya when droughts occurred.
Our stories!
With awareness, communities would not only be empowered, but also be enabled to lead their own resilience stories. While this is happening in some places, it is not commonplace and yet it should be!
What if...
We made natives who speak English aware of this 'awareness gap'? Would it encourage those who are climate aware to actively support communities in their pursuit of adaptation and resilience?
Consider this our experiment!
Where awareness of the changing climate is borne out of local experiences and detached from the climate science, we facilitate local conversations to help natives leap towards adaptation and resilience
Farmer stories
In the heart of Zimbabwe, a farmer, has tilled the land for over 35 years. “Despite practicing crop rotation and using organic methods, modern challenges, like expensive synthetic fertilizers and delayed payments from grain markets, have strained our efforts...” Interview by Jussa M Kudherezera, Zimbabwe
Indigenous exploration
Support this initiative
Firstly, we plan to map out the rural communities that have climate change information in their native languages versus those that do not and gather information on their food system sustenance situation. To do this, we need your help!
Meet our ambassadors
We will turn to these individuals to scale our experiment; to help us process their communities to find out if they have climate change information in their native languages or not
Activists
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Farmers
Generating our template
