Consulting and adaptation strategies
We offer consulting solutions for the design of adaptation measures, plans and strategies aimed at increasing climate resilience.
About the project
Hondu-CAP, o Technical assistance for capacity building in climate change adaptation and livelihood resilience strategies in Honduras.
This assistance is part of the Action Aid Agreement with AECID “Improving the resilience capacities of the population and their livelihoods, to fight against food insecurity, face natural or anthropogenic crises and reduce poverty conditions, with a gender equity and rights approach. Honduras”. The services provided by FIC aim to: (1) improve the capacities of personnel from local and national institutions, governmental, community and academic levels, to define actions, plans and strategies for livelihood resilience and adaptation to climate change, through the development and implementation of two editions of a Diploma in Adaptation to Climate Change and other complementary training activities; and (2) conduct research in the Convention territories to assess the impact of climate change on priority livelihoods. The project focuses on adaptation, not only to future climate, but also to the already recorded climate change, which has increased climate variability and the intensity and frequency of extreme events, resulting in an increased demand for weather forecasting services and Early Warning Systems.
Activities performed
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FIC designed and implemented two editions of a Postgraduate Course on Adaptation to Climate Change, taking charge of an important part of the teaching activities, both theoretical and practical, especially in the more technical aspects related to meteorology, climate change, the assessment of its impacts and adaptation to it. To conduct research on the vulnerability to climate change of priority livelihoods, the methodology developed since 2010 in collaboration with experts in agriculture and food security was applied, the phases of which are as follows: (1) formation of the Traditional Knowledge Technical Group (GTST), which integrates producers and experts from the 8 selected livelihoods; (2) identification together with the GTST of the key aspects in which climate affects each phase of the value chain of each livelihood; (3) design, computer programming and verification of derived variables that highlight these key aspects, also together with the GTST; (4) simulation of future climate at the local scale; (5) obtaining projections of the derived variables from the climate simulations; (6) analysis of the expected changes in the derived variables, i.e., in the key aspects affecting each phase of the value chain; (7) proposal of adaptation measures. It should be emphasized that only by analyzing each stage of the value chain will it be possible to design concrete adaptation measures and not just general recommendations. For example, if in a locality no significant changes in coffee cultivation are expected except for a change in the rainfall pattern that will make patio drying difficult, a concrete and local adaptation measure would be not to build outdoor drying patios, but to invest in covering them or in artificial drying sheds. With general recommendations such as "the temperature is going to rise, so coffee cultivation must increase in altitude", it is generally not possible to adopt concrete measures at specific points, which is what is needed to address adaptation in a more robust way.
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