Climate change: Women from NI and Rwanda meet to share problems on farms

She has seen the impact of increasingly extreme weather on her farm over time.

“In the last 10 years, we’ve had more extremes of floods than we’ve ever had, and that’s the thing that’s most striking about it.

“So there’s a lot of debate about climate change, but I can only tell you what I know.

“And it’s pretty obvious to me that we are experiencing more extremes in our weather from the point of view of trying to run this farm.”

Mugoboka, who works with Rwandan farmers to help them become more sustainable in the face of climate change, said she was “surprised” to hear that flooding has been an issue for farms in Northern Ireland.

“Learning that you’ve had flooding, I realised that no one is immune from climate shocks — only that maybe you have different coping strategies as we are just limited on that,” she said.

“That’s the only difference.

“Otherwise, we are all having these issues of climate change.”