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Community and indigenous strategies for climate change adaptation

Climate change has become an urgent challenge for life and the Earth. Populations at disproportionately higher risk of adverse consequences with global warming of 1.5°C and beyond include disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, some indigenous peoples, and local communities dependent on agricultural or coastal livelihoods (IPCC, 2018).
However, indigenous communities across the world have indeed developed nature-based practices for climate change adaptation, based on their long-term experience with adverse climatic effects.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is developing its innovation strategy, which considers indigenous knowledge as part of key solutions to agricultural food systems challenges, including climate change.
It is therefore opportune to promote indigenous practices as part of nature-based innovative solutions and to mainstream them in community-based adaptation programmes.
In this regard, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) published a compendium of indigenous and community adaptation practices across the world, with a focus on water scarcity in agriculture.
The webinar discusses the practices from the WASAG compendium and explores the opportunities for upscaling them, taking into account other practices such as those promoted by the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Sites (GIAHS), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the SinoCarbon Innovation & Investment.
It is expected that the webinar will trigger a Community of Practice which will further collaborate on actions to maximize the potential of Indigenous Knowledge and practices as significant nature-based solutions contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture and to mobilize the required support.

Sep 29, 2022 03:00 PM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna