Adaptation for Smallholders to Climate Change |
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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
AdapCC project progress – The future of the coffee production in Latin America
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. 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. |