{"id":66,"date":"2020-09-17T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-09-17T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:57:22","slug":"potential-of-trees-to-mitigate-climate-change-mitigation-potential-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/2020\/09\/17\/potential-of-trees-to-mitigate-climate-change-mitigation-potential-in-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"POTENTIAL  OF TREES TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN SOUTH SUDAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The global warming effect of South Sudan is two and half times more than the Global average hence putting the country amongst the five worst performing in terms of the climate change vulnerability index. Extreme weather conditions in the form of drought and flooding have been on the increase in South Sudan over the past two decades. These two extreme conditions must happen in South Sudan each year.  Climate Change is real in this young Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the potential of forestry to mitigate this trend in South Sudan formed the main theme of my recent thesis work with Scientist from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the Natural Resource Management Team of FAO South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the diversity of trees in the Country,  the work established <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>HIGH &nbsp;CARBON SEQUESTRATION &nbsp;TREES IN SOUTH SUDAN<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fan palm, Baobab, Desert date, Shea butter, Tamarind, and Mvule tree Species above 3-4 Kg Co2e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>MEDIUM &nbsp;&nbsp;CARBON SEQUESTRATION &nbsp;TREES IN SOUTH SUDAN<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pinus, Mangoes, Mahogany, and Jackfruit has the potential to sequester above 2kgCo2eha\/yr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>LOW &nbsp;CARBON SEQUESTRATION &nbsp;TREES IN SOUTH SUDAN<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neem, Orange, Guava, Gum tree species sequester less than 2KgCo2e ha\/yr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2020\/09\/baobab-tree-in-uppernile.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2020\/09\/baobab-tree-in-uppernile.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2020\/09\/baobab-tree-in-uppernile-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Baobab tree in Uppernile State South Sudan  established as one of the high potential carbon sequestration tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global warming effect of South Sudan is two and half times more than the Global average hence putting the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/francis-kagbeni-muana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}