Increasing Adaptive Capacity Through Participatory Mapping
Adaptation in practice Increasing adaptive capacity through participatory mapping Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty Acknowledgements This review was prepared by the IFAD Environment and Climate Division between January and April 2013. It is based on remote and in-person semi-structured interviews, written exchanges and documentary analysis. Prepared by: Antonella Piccolella Reviewed by: Gernot Laganda, Ilaria Firmian, Brian Thomson, Sheila Mwanundu and Tom Mwangi Anyonge Many thanks to Mohammed Abdel-Gadir, Abdel-Hamid Adam, Yolando C. Arban, Alehegne Dagnew, Vusi Dlamini, Ilaria Firmian, Janvier Gasasira, Lynn Kota, Thingreiphi Lungharwo, Mohamed Maiga, Adrian Marbaniang, Godwin Muhati for providing feedback and sharing their insights on the use of participatory mapping within the IFAD portfolio of programmes and projects. Adaptation in practice Increasing adaptive capacity through participatory mapping Purpose of this paper Climate change is transforming the context resilient because they have fewer assets to of smallholder agriculture. Over centuries, fall back on when shocks occur. Resilience smallholders have drawn on indigenous is often correlated with access to institutions knowledge and historical observations which are able to transfer relevant information, to manage the effects of a variable knowledge and technologies to appraise climate. Today, the speed and intensity of and manage climate-related risks. This environmental change is outpacing their access to assets, institutions, knowledge and capacity to do so. As our world is warming information, innovation and decision-making and the nature of risk is changing, historical is widely referred to as ‘adaptive capacity’ averages are no longer a sufficient guide (Jones, Ludi, and Levine 2010). for the future. Many smallholder farmers As part of its corporate learning strategy in developing countries are experiencing on climate change adaptation, IFAD has losses and damages from extreme weather analysed case studies from Sudan, India, events on an unprecedented scale.
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