Climate Change Adaptation

TCP project: Assistance to Andean countries to reduce risks and disasters in the farming sector

Implementation: April 2008 - August 2010
Countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

In a scenario where natural disasters have shown an increasingly unpredictable behavior, it is of increasing importance to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change impacts to enable communities located in areas particularly vulnerable to effectively recover from loses and damages caused by disasters.

Communities located in the upper parts of watersheds in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador are under constant threat of inclement weather, which aggravates the destruction of the natural environment, with devastating effects on agricultural production, thus perpetuating the vicious circle poverty.

To achieve the necessary changes to allow the effective transformation of the quality of life in high mountain areas is essential to strengthen the capacities of local and regional governments, who are the best positioned actors to implement the required transformations, while the degree of consolidation acts as an indicator of progress.