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).
Results of the International AdapCC seminar in Nicaragua
We have made important progresses in our pilot project that supports coffee and tea producers who face negative
impacts of climate change.
Between March 21 to 26 of this year the international seminar "Adaptation to climate change in the coffee
sector of Peru, Nicaragua and Mexico" was carried out in Nicaragua.
The training seminar was visited by 26 technical advisors of partner producer organisations in Peru, Nicaragua
and Mexico. Together with climate change experts they were discussing during the 5 days workshop their
experiences regarding sustainable measures to adapt to climate change in their site-specific scenarios. Some of
the lessons learnt are the following:
- site-specific adaptation strategies depend largely on site-specific climate scenarios and local capacities
- changing climate conditions, e.g. prolonged droughts and stronger rainy seasons are affecting the coffee
plantations and the crop yield
- most required measures of adaptation strategies are diversification, more resistant varieties, good
agricultural practices and the sustainable use of natural resources
For more detailed information about the training seminar please have a look at the pdf-document
Resultados del Seminario AdapCC
en Matagalpa / Nicaragua (0.2 MB, spanish).
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