The exhibition hosting the shots taken by photographer Gianfranco Ferraro in the Dry Zone of Myanmar, an area strongly affected by the consequences of climate change, where AICS has financed various initiatives to support the local population, was inaugurated in Bergamo on Saturday 1 April 2023; the most recent is the S.A.F.E.C.R.O.P.S. project. created by the Italian NGO CESVI in collaboration with the local NGO NAG and the Associazione Microfinanza e Sviluppo Onlus.
The exhibition will be open to visitors until May 1, 2023. The project aims to support the population in the fight against the effects of climate change in the agricultural sector through the promotion of innovative practices for sustainable agriculture, the dissemination of seeds suitable for the location and profitable and access to credit also for small producers in the sesame, peanut and bean supply chains.
Promoting sustainable rural development and community resilience in Myanmar is strategic, as the country is considered second in the world by the Global Climate Risk Index 2021 for vulnerability to extreme climate events and natural disasters linked to climate change, which exacerbate the crisis humanitarian crisis which affects, to date, 17.6 million people according to United Nations estimates.
The website www.semidisperanza.info is also dedicated to the project, where, in addition to photographs, interviews with the beneficiaries of the project are collected, who share their experience and the opportunities created for their family and their village thanks to the project.
