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Risk and Opportunity Analysis (ROA)

The first barrier to overcome when designing an adaptation strategy is the lack of analysis toolkits to identify adequate adaptation strategies. Consequently, the AdapCC pilot initiative provided the basis to adopt and further enhance existing analysis toolkits to identify adaptation measures at the farmer's level. The main objective of the process of Risk and Opportunity Analysis is the participatory identification of adaptation measures and strategies at the small-scale farmer level to cope with climate change. The ROA process is an analysis, carried out in 7 steps, which allows us to identify climate risks for small-scale production systems in a specific region and to understand the root causes of being affected by climate variability or extreme weather events.

ROA

The final product of the analysis is supposed to be a site-specific strategy to adapt to climate change, which could be implemented by the affected producers themselves. This adaptation strategy contains concrete measures to reduce the climate risks and the vulnerabilities on the producers' farm.

Expected output of the ROA process:

  • Detailed information about the impacts of climate change on small-scale coffee and tea production in the focus regions (risks, damages, vulnerabilities of smallholders)
  • Identified countermeasures to reduce the climate risks for the producers (adaptation measures)
  • Adaptation strategies for the pilot groups including technical project designs and operational plans to implement concrete measures
  • Options to generate additional financing or funding for implementing the adaptation strategies
  • Regional network of institutions and farmers to exchange and transmit the experiences and the results of the pilot projects

To carry out the ROA process it is necessary to facilitate participatory instruments, motivating the affected population to make decisions in the consolidation of the processes. On the one hand the process itself is an analysis and on the other hand it contains sessions of capacity building for all involved actors as well as sensitization lessons. Hence, the members of the small-scale producer organization are contributing to the analysis, making decisions and becoming sensitized for the climate risks and the need to adapt. Especially the technical promoters of the organization learn to apply the analysis and to carry out the 7 steps. Accordingly, the ROA process is a process of various analyses as much as a process to develop capacities among small-scale farmers and their institutions to cope with climate change.

ROA
A training handbook in Spanish to apply the complete ROA process is now available.

PDF-Document (spanish, 3.0 MB)