MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
SLIDE – Strategies for building adaptive capacity
Strategies need to have both
• Immediate and
• Long-term benefits
• No regrets strategies address non-climate development needs
(eg. Food security) and also support adaptation to CC.
• They address multiple risks – immediate and long-term needs.
FOOD SECURITY and DRR must come first
In order to be able to deal with current hazards (including Climate Variability)
and rapidly changing circumstances, farmer‟s need to be empowered
(capacitated) to analyse and understand what is happening. They need to be
aware of the risks, hazards and shocks that they face, how these impact on their
livelihoods, what strengths or capacities they have that they can use to minimise
or avoid these risks and what they can do to make their lives and livelihoods
more resilient to change. In order to identify potential risks and adaptive
strategies, we need context specific analysis that identifies the causes of
peoples‟ vulnerability.
On days 2 and 3 of this workshop we will be learning about livelihoods and
vulnerability analysis.
A Training Manual on Use of Climate Information and Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment for
Agricultural Extension Staff in Zimbabwe
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