{"id":1493,"date":"2021-06-18T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/adaptation-to-climate-change-in-the-sahel-our-new-mali-niger-burkina-co-productions"},"modified":"2021-06-18T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:15:38","slug":"adaptation-to-climate-change-in-the-sahel-our-new-mali-niger-burkina-co-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/adaptation-to-climate-change-in-the-sahel-our-new-mali-niger-burkina-co-productions","title":{"rendered":"Adaptation to climate change in the Sahel: our new Mali-Niger-Burkina co-productions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fondation Hirondelle’s three radio and multimedia programmes in the Sahel, Studio Tamani in Mali, Studio Kalangou in Niger and Studio Yafa in Burkina Faso, began coordinated production of news programmes and talk-shows on climate change, its many effects, and local initiatives to adapt to it.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Climate change is increasingly affecting the populations of Sahelian countries through poor rainfall, rising temperatures, droughts and the advance of the desert. The direct and indirect consequences of these changes include a sharp drop in agropastoral production and productivity, leading to growing food insecurity, conflicts over access to natural resources, particularly agro-pastoral conflicts, as well as increased poverty and migration. The issue of climate change is therefore cross-cutting to many of the problems faced in Sahelian countries, and it is therefore crucial for local media to cover it in depth, to explain its causes and effects, and to create a dialogue between experts, decision-makers and populations on solutions and possibilities for adaptation. <\/span><\/p>\n

As public interest media, Studio Tamani, Studio Kalangou and Studio Yafa, radio and multimedia programmes created by Fondation Hirondelle in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso respectively, aim to enable citizens affected by climate change to act in their daily lives by\u00a0:<\/span><\/p>\n