This National Holiday celebrates the start of Spring, of growth and usually marks the start of another years agricultural practises. However due to Climate Change Farmers in recent decades find they can no longer thrust these traditional farming calendars or weather forecasting methods. https://www.themimu.info/sites/themimu.info/files/documents/Case%20Study_DryZone_FarmerVulnerablity-ClimateViration_KhinMoeKyi_ICIRD2012.pdf. This uncertainty is a major impact on the security of our global food system, from the Shannon Callows in Clonown, Ireland, to Htee Pu Village in the Dryland zone of Myanmar, S.E. Asia.
This bank holiday I’ll continue with background reading to gain a thorough history of Myanmar which formed its current political, socio-economic situation. In order to understand Myanmar’s perceptions of climate change and gender dimensions of agriculture and food security, which my CCAFS thesis is based on.
