RESSAC launches its local Agro-ecological program to improve and strengthen the resilience of small producers to climate change in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Context

In the current context of climate change and variability, the scaling up of production techniques based on the agroecological approach to the use of resources (land, water, flora, fauna, etc.) offers an opportunity in the Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo to meet the challenge of resilience in the face of food insecurity and nutritional deficiencies that affect poor households. Agroec[...]

Legal framework for investment in the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo

1. Legal framework

The Investment Code (Cfr. Law n° 004/2002 of 02/21/2002).

The new investment code pursues the following objectives:

a) Promote the establishment of civil engineering companies responsible for the construction and maintenance of roads and highways as well as those for the public transport of people and goods, whether by land, river or air;

b) Promot[...]

Agro-ecological knowledge and practices of indigenous women in resilience to climate change in the Democratic Republic of Congo

This project was carried out by PIFEVA, a member of RESSAC in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The work carried out under this project has effectively contributed to the identification and promotion of agro-ecological work carried out by the indigenous women of Mwenga that the identification of wild agricultural seeds that are resilient to climate change will facilitate (in the means and long-term) strengthening and improving thus contributin[...]

Adaptation to climate change: A challenge for family farming in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Introduction

  Family farming is already experiencing the impacts of climate change and variability and will continue to feel the effects in the future. Different parameters, such as changes in the amount and frequency of precipitation, temperatures, alternations of the seasons will increasingly influence production systems. Some elements of complex natural systems (such as water cycles and temperature patterns)[...]