AdapCC – Adaptation to climate change for smallholders of coffee and tea
"Adaptation for Smallholders to Climate Change" (AdapCC) supports coffee and tea
farmers in developing strategies to cope
with the risks and impacts of climate change.
The Public-Private Partnership is
implemented by the leading British Fairtrade company for hot beverages
Cafédirect and the
Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (German Technical Cooperation).
AdapCC project progress – The future of the coffee production in Latin America
We have made important progresses in the second phase of our pilot project that supports coffee and tea producers
who face negative impacts of climate change. In Latin America the project works together with three organizations:
PRODECOOP in Nicaragua,
CEPICAFÉ in Peru and MÁS CAFÉ (PDF-Document, 0.7 MB) in Mexico.
Based on participative analyses we have elaborated strategies of adaptation to climate change for each of the
pilot groups, who will serve the producers to develop operative plans for the implementation of concrete measures.
To complete this information, we started a fruitful cooperation with the International Centre of Tropical Agriculture
(
CIAT). The institute collected scientific climate data and calculated, future climate scenarios taking into account
the possible changes in cultivating coffee in our pilot regions of Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru until 2020 and 2050.
The impacts for the coffee production are very specific in each geographic region and for each cooperative. But in
general it can be said that in each investigated zone, regarding climate change impacts, there will be areas that will
no longer be suitable for coffee production, there will further be areas still suitable but with strong needs for technical
adaptation of production and there will be new appropriate areas for cultivating coffee.
The next challenge in the cooperation with the pilot groups will be to combine the results and recommendations of the
CIAT study with the developed adaptation strategies. This will be carried out in a participative manner together with
the smallholders.
As a next step the process of field investigation in the Kenyan tea sector will be realised at the end of 2008.
For further information please see the newsletter "Advances of AdapCC project" (only Spanish version) and the presentation
"AdapCC_SIAASE" (only Spanish version) in the section "most recent downloads" on this page.
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