'Grandmothers are our weather app': new maps and local knowledge power Chad's climate fightback

With heat, drought and floods wrecking livelihoods and sparking conflict, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim set out to help villages map and share precious resourcesIt's a simple idea: where land and river boundaries are disputed, make a map. Putting it into practice, using the unwritten knowledge and oral histories of farmers, nomads and of grandmothers who read bird migration patterns to forecast rain, is a little harder.But Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim says she is a fighter. "If you're born as an Indigenous person, you're born an activist, because you're born with the problems surrounding your community,? she says. Continue reading...