Adapting to a Changing Environment

Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development Foundation

Cagayan de Oro, Filipinas

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
Ecosistema
Oceans
Oceans/Coasts
Tipo de comunidad
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
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General Info

Dirección

Lubluban, Libertad, Misamis Oriental
Cagayan de Oro
Filipinas

Correo electrónico

wandfdn@gmail.com
Problem

Población impactada

36,000; 75% are farmers/fisherfolks.

Size

80

Ocupaciones principales

farming and fishing

Recursos locales de los que depende la comunidad y con qué propósito

Upland and coastal resources

Amenazas locales a los recursos

Coastal areas massive siltation and in upland areas massive loss of soil due to erosion and lack of trees and forest cover.

Riesgos climáticos

Uncertain climating pattern and difficulty to plant in the uplands

Nivel de sensibilidad

Very high.

Nivel de capacidad adaptativa

Very high. Communities have difficulty making a living as source of livelihood is reduced.
Solution

We use participatory rapid appraisal in order to come-up with solutions to climate vulnerability. We did this by forming a team comprising members of the community and our group. We gathered social, economic and biophysical data with focus on the hazards and ways to solve it. Partners involved in the rapid appraisal include local government units, local associations, ourselves, academe and government line agencies, eg. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

Results

Costos ecológicos

This is via the local community clusters that we organize. Through them, community education on climate vulnerability, search for alternative livelihoods and understanding of climate change issues and coping mechanisms is achieved.

Beneficio ecológico

There is no ecological cost of our strategy.

Indicadores económicos utilizados para medir el beneficio

Improvement in soil fertility and ability of the soil to withstand massive erosion due to tree growing is one of the ecological benefit. Trees also attracts rain and this will help stabilize climate conditions.

Costo comunitario/social

Area of land planted in a diversified manner.

Beneficio comunitario/social

There is no community social cost.

Indicadores comunitarios/sociales utilizados para medir el beneficio

Communities are increasingly aware of the need to diversify farming in order to improve soil integrity and widen economic sources.

Costo económico

Improvement in incomes. Functional community clusters doing planning and implementing their plans.

Beneficio económico

Cost is estimated at USD 5,000 per year.

Indicadores ecológicos utilizados para medir el beneficio

Increased income, availability of food especially nutrients from home-grown vegetables year round.

What were/are the challenges your community faced in implementing this solution?

Reports of community clusters and random survey of families participating in the program.

Action

Describa el proceso basado en la comunidad utilizado para desarrollar la solución, incluidas las herramientas y los procesos utilizados.

Not very able. Adaptive capacity is low.

Peligro climático de preocupación

Our solution focused on alternative livelihoods and climate resilient farm systems in order to cope with vulnerabilities. For this we are providing "climate adaptation sustainable packs" comprising climate-resilient farm inputs. These are for example plan

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege el ecosistema afectado?

Changing temperatures and weather patterns

How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?

Improvement in small-scale farm systems would mean prevention of massive loss of top soil from the uplands due to soil erosion.

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege a las comunidades afectadas?

Adding plants in the landscape would mean reducing soil erosion as roots of plants would prevent soil from eroding. The planting of root crops and tubers and using this as staple food would mean more secure in sources of food despite changes in climate conditions, eg. long dry spell or supertyphoons.

¿Cómo su solución reduce la sensibilidad de las comunidades afectadas?

Agriculture sytems would be more adaptive compared to the present mono-crop system practiced by farmers. The growing of vegetables in the backyard means less pressure on the sea resources by coastal dwellers.

¿Cómo ha aumentado su solución la capacidad de las comunidades locales para adaptarse a posibles cambios climáticos?

The root-crop based food security option and diversification of farming by the planting of shade tolerant high-valued fruit and commercial crops would mean reduced sensitivity to climate change. The provision of micro-credit on a revolving scheme would mean less dependence on usurers and freeing marginal coastal and upland dwellers to usurious situation.

Scale

¿Se puede replicar esta solución en otros lugares?

One challenge is land ownership and the practice of mortgaging their lands to usurers in times of family crisis. We are at present implementing a land redemption and land co-management program in order to counteract this situation.

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