Laura E' WILLIAMSON

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Pintadas Solar climate-proofing communities

• Laura E. WILLIAMSON
• Changement climatique Energie et Ecosystémes
• Bamako, Mali 6-8 mai, 2008

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SSN

• Build capacity to reduce poverty in the context
  of global climate change.
• network of organizations, research institutions
  and consultants
• operations in Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania,
  Mozambique, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
• Pintadas project
• improving agricultural productivity through
  irrigation and solar powered water pumping
• adaptation AND mitigation ADMIT
• climate-proofing

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Pintadas

• Semi-arid region of Brazil (insert map)
• Poor, agriculture-based region
• 63 of population rural
• 50 of families are below poverty level
• Lack of financial and appropriate technical
  assistance
• Inadequate policies to address climate change

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Context

• Change in rainfall variability
• increase in drought vulnerability
• Inefficient use of water
• Inefficient/inappropriate technologies
• Lack of capacity building and training

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Effects

• Inability to grow crops
• migration to urban areas
• 3000 people/year leave for seasonal jobs
• augmentation of income through other means
• Increase in poverty

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Approach

• Change current/traditional irrigation
• inefficient
• wasting water
• Affordable
• Technically simple

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Current/Traditional Irrigation
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Solution

• Implement drip irrigation system
• uses less water than conventional irrigation
  techniques
• 200 l/day for 10m2
• increases agricultural productivity
• System elements
• holding pond
• water pump - powered via small PV system
• pipes and tubing

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Outcomes

• Increase in crop productivity
• Diversification of income
• reduction in rural migration
• Improved eco-system management

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More information

• Video www.youtube.com/watch?vA_Ds76DvxHg
• Website www.southsouthnorth.org
• Documentation Barry Kantor - barry_at_southsouthnor
  th.org