Contributing to climate change resilient socio-ecological landscapes for family prosperity and nutrition in Guatemala and El Salvador 2023-2025
Funding Source:
Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
Period of execution:
2023 – 2025
Objective:
Promote the resilience of socio-ecological landscapes to climate change, contributing to the prosperity and nutrition of vulnerable populations in the republics of Guatemala and El Salvador.
Main results:
R1: Implement climate change adaptation actions in family agri-food systems that allow for greater resilience to current variability and long-term climate change.
A.1.1. Implementation of adaptation measures in family agrifood systems (crops).
Initial goals
- 300 families (150 men, 150 women, 1200 children).
- Have implemented a new crop for self-consumption as an adaptation measure in the agrifood sector.
R2: Generate capacities on climate change and adaptation to different social and public actors in society in both intervention territories through knowledge management.
Five subcomponents:
Initial goals.
- 75 public sector technicians and municipal decision makers (journalists).
- 240 teachers at primary, basic and diversified levels.
- 300 community leaders.
- Communication on climate change in mass media.
- Vulnerability analysis in 10 communities where the project will be implemented.
R3: Ecosystem-based adaptation measures implemented in critical ecosystems for intervention communities.
A.3.1 Ensure protection of forested areas in intervention municipalities.
Initial targets
- Two forest cover areas (community/municipal strengthened in their management and conservation in Guatemala).
- Two forest nurseries created or strengthened in Guatemala.
R4: Generated scientific knowledge and systematization of local/ancestral Mayan knowledge to promote effective adaptation in the intervention territories.
A.4.1 Research on climate risks and potential adaptation measures.
A.4.2 1 Systematization of local and/or indigenous knowledge that contributes to adaptation.
