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By Justin Kayiranga
Bugesera district which was drought-stricken, is now becoming a productive land thanks to the government’s green climate initiatives and policies implemented in that part of the Eastern Province of Rwanda.
The impacts of the extreme droughts caused by deforestation issues in Bugesera district in the early 2000s, pushed many of its residents to migrate to other parts of the country looking for work to help them survive.
Reports show that no single crop was productive in the 2000 and the entire region depended on external food supplies as stated in Bugesera Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) which was conducted by Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) in January 2007.
To address this issue, the Government of Rwanda (GoR) has initiated different projects which assisted in changing the narratives of this region and brought back life dependence.
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