COP22 / UGANDA CATTLE

The cattle corridor in central Uganda, a semi-arid area of the country is currently on the front-line of the nation’s battle against climate change. UN climate change experts say that 80 percent of the population here relies upon agriculture for its livelihood, “it is a matter of life and death.” FAO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:01
• Production Date: 4 November 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO
• Subject Topical: AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD PRODUCTION
• Geographic Subject: UGANDA
• MAMS Id: 1767447
• Parent Id: 1767447
• Alternate Title: unifeed161104e

Description

STORY: COP22 / UGANDA CATTLE
TRT: 01:44
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: (EMBARGOED UNTIL 7 NOVEMBER 0845 GMT)
LANGUAGE: LUANDA / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: OCTOBER 2016, NAKASEKE DISTRICT, KAMPALA, UGANDA

Shotlist

1. Pan right, landscape
2. Med shot, cow
3. SOUNDBITE (Luanda) Ellyson Arinawe, Farmer, Nakaseke District:
“Our animals have to walk long distances to look for water and most of the cows end up dying. The pasture dries up and vanishes and we end up with areas without any vegetation at all.”
4. Tilt up, chickens walking on ground to farmer field school
5. Med shot, farmer speaking to a trainer
6. Close up, trainer
7. Various shots, group members listening to a female farmer
8. Tilt down, adaptation plan they have devised together
9. Med shot, Ellyson Arinawe feeding his cows
12. Close up, cows eating
13. Pan right, harvested and stored water
14. Various shots, Ellyson Arinawe using a foot pump to water his cattle, cattle arrive
15. Close up, cattle drinking
16. Pan right, from water tank to a barn
17. Med shot, women stacking hay bales in a barn
18. Tilt up, Proscovia Nakibuye stacking hay
19. Various shots, farmer field school member milking cow
20. Close up, young girl drinking milk
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Chebet Maukut, Focal Point, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kampala:
“Agricultural food security is a matter of life and death in Uganda. It’s about the survival of humanity.”
22. Various shots, farmer field school members making ghee
23. Various shots, woman farmer field school member polishing the ghee containers in a hut
24. Tilt up, farmer filling up a yellow jerry with water in a water storage area
25. Wide shot, farmer walking away with the jerry can of water

Storyline

The cattle corridor in central Uganda, a semi-arid area of the country is currently on the front-line of the nation’s battle against climate change.

Agriculture here is largely rain-fed and drought along with a lack of rainfall is making life unpredictable and increasingly difficult.

SOUNDBITE (Local Dialect) Ellyson Arinawe, Farmer, Nakaseke District:
“Our animals have to walk long distances to look for water and most of the cows end up dying. The pasture dries up and vanishes and we end up with areas without any vegetation at all.”

Now, a Global Climate Change Alliance initiative is bringing locals together in farmer field schools. Pastoralists are now growing drought resistant pastures so that they can continue to feed their cattle during dry seasons.

And they’re encouraged to harvest water and store it in order to water their cattle and irrigate their crops.

Eighty percent of the population of Uganda relies upon agriculture for its livelihood. Planning for climate change is essential and has the full backing of the government.

SOUNDBITE (English) Chebet Maukut, Focal Point, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kampala:
“Agricultural food security is a matter of life and death in Uganda. It’s about the survival of humanity. “

The initiative is in six of Uganda’s 120 districts. Other parts of the country are learning from its successes and will be replicated and scaled-up across the country in the coming years.