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The Adaptation Fund was established to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are parties to the Kyoto Protocol and are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

Titre : Rainfed Farming Communities in Central Chile Develop Resilient Processes to Climate Change with the Implementation of Innovative Technological Strategies Adapted to Improve Food Safety

Country : Chile

Date : 2022
Durée : 3 years

Présentation
The project is an initiative based on a territorial approach that acts from the local scenario through multidimensional strategies, characterized by technological innovation and social innovation from the perspective of territorial development acting directly in the productive agroecosystems of small farmers.

The initiative aims to improve resilience to climate change adaptation, and considers four main areas or areas of action that interact with each other and are developed simultaneously with different emphases : 1- Public sphere. Coordinated and conscious actions by the public sector are required to address the processes of adaptation to climate change. 2- Technological field. Incorporating innovative technologies that are sustainable and adapted to the characteristics of small-scale agriculture. 3-Territorial approach. A broad approach is required to improve local governance and the real impact of such an initiative on the territory. 4- Cultural change. Cross-cutting axis that is proposed as the highest goal to improve the resilience of rural communities to climate change.

The project will promote an intervention in the productive area, encouraging the protection of agroecosystems through the local articulation of public resources and resources of the small farmers themselves, in addition to the active participation of the community population, thus achieving the establishment of a "way of doing" agriculture that is innovative and sustainable, rooted in local society and different from what has historically been done. In the design, dissemination and implementation, the educational communities present will be incorporated, which will have a central role in the implementation and dissemination of this proposal ; which through the Education curriculum, will give body to its cross-cutting environmental objectives

Objectifs
Develop and implement a system of innovative technological measures to improve the resilience of farming communities to climate change. • Implement a set of measures and technologies appropriate to the conditions of local farmers to address the threats that negatively affect the availability of water resources in production systems. • Implement a set of techniques for soil improvement and restoration to favor sustainable production. • Implement a cross-cutting climate change education strategy for the inhabitants of the project’s territory to improve their skills and abilities to increase the impact of the set 16 of measures to be developed with the intervention. • Develop and implement an Environmental Education Program for climate change adaptation in the rural community through rural schools. • Implement an agroclimatic risk information management system to promote adaptation and resilience of farmers to climate change

Implementing Entity : Agencia de Cooperación Internacional de Chile
Executing Entity : Ministry of Agriculture

Financement  : USD 5,000,000

Adaptation Fund