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?
Ecossistema
Oceans
Oceans/Coasts
Tipo de comunidade
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
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General Info

Endereço

Lubluban, Libertad, Misamis Oriental
Cagayan de Oro
Filipinas

E-mail

wandfdn@gmail.com
Problem

População impactada

36,000; 75% are farmers/fisherfolks.

Tamanho

80

Principais ocupações

farming and fishing

Recursos locais dos quais a comunidade depende e com que finalidade

Upland and coastal resources

Ameaças locais aos recursos

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

Perigos climáticos

Uncertain climating pattern and difficulty to plant in the uplands

Nível de sensibilidade

Very high.

Nível de capacidade 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

Custos 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.

Benefício Ecológico

There is no ecological cost of our strategy.

Indicadores Econômicos usados para medir o benefício

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.

Custo comunitário/social

Area of land planted in a diversified manner.

Benefício Social/Comunitário

There is no community social cost.

Indicadores comunitários/sociais usados para medir o benefício

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

Custo Econômico

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

Benefício económico

Cost is estimated at USD 5,000 per year.

Indicadores Ecológicos usados para medir o benefício

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

Quais foram/são os desafios que sua comunidade enfrentou na implementação desta solução?

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

Action

Descreva o processo baseado na comunidade usado para desenvolver a solução, incluindo ferramentas e processos usados

Not very able. Adaptive capacity is low.

Perigo climático preocupante

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

Como sua solução reduz a exposição e amortece/protege o ecossistema afetado?

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.

Como sua solução reduz a exposição e amortece/protege as comunidades afetadas?

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.

Como sua solução reduz a sensibilidade das comunidades afetadas?

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.

Como sua solução aumentou a capacidade das comunidades locais de se adaptarem a possíveis mudanças climáticas?

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

Esta solução pode ser replicada em outro lugar?

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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