CSV – LOS CERRILLOS . CAUCA - COLOMBIA

Location: 1560-1760 m. 21 ° C 2500 mm / year of precipitation.

Implementers: CCAFS and Foundation Ecohabitats

CSV – LOS CERRILLOS . CAUCA - COLOMBIA

• CSV Los Cerrillos is inhabited by 2,500 families of producers of coffee and sugar cane.

• They form a territory of 15 villages. Organized in an association that takes administrative decisions and policies of their territory

• Women play an important role in social and economic organization. They have been a driving force behind the association of coffee growers.

• The principals climatic hazards are drought, wind, frost and prolonged rains

• Despite being close to the provincial capital poverty levels they are high.

Main Characteristics

• The CSV has become a participatory space research and implementation of tools to multiply rural processes of adaptation to Variability and Climate Change with different gender roles.

VISION OF THE CERRILLOS CSV

APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CERRILLOS CSV

• We apply a territorial approach where through adaptation, organizational, environmental, economic and political processes of the communities and institutions that relates to that territory are articulated.

• For this we build Local Adaptation Plans.

• Adaptive management with a focus on the territory

Inclusion of

gender

Communication

for Social

Change

Generating

economic

instruments

APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CERRILLOS CSV

COMMUNITY

AGREEMENT

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TERRITORY

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VULNERABILI

TY ANALYSIS

CONSOLIDATI

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PARTICIPATI

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PLAN

ADAPTATION

MULTIPLYING ADAPTATION MEASURES

MONITORING FOR

ADAPTATION

FARM

COUNTY

MUNICIPALITY

Construction

Policies

Social self

Management

• In the CSV we work with three strategies for adaptation to the territory:

• Organizational strengthening and articulation based on the local adaptation plan

• Empowerment of women and youth

• Implementation of Field Schools to Adaptation

APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CERRILLOS CSV

MAIN ACTIVITIES

What are we doing (years 2014-2015)

• Baseline (Territory) and Baseline Gender

• Economic Games and ICTs for planning of production under different climatic variability

• Using ICTs to share lessons learned

• Consolidation of institutional platforms for joint action

• Assessment Adaptation best practices

• Incorporation of results of CSV in school curricula by two rural schools, to promote a "culture of adaptation“

• Local Agroclimatic Technical Groups in order to promote specific adaptation measures.

(CIAT, FONTAGRO, CCAFS, CENICAFE, MINTICS, AGRONET..)

• Strengthening women's and youth organizations to establish business plans

• Participatory identification of autonomous and planned adaptation measures for their multiplication through Field Schools adaptation.

• Participatory GIS to involve young people in the knowledge of the territory

• Portfolio of projects to strengthen community self

• Inclusion the issue of climate change in local gender and agriculture policies

• We have a replica in the department of Atlántico. From lessons we are promoting new sites in other municipalities (4)

We are articulating the scientific knowledge with the capacity building

Scientific knowledge Capacity Building

Field schools for adaptation to climate change

Each school is composed

of:

1. One Plot Mother :

Food Security.

Soil Conservation, Agro

climatology Warnings and

Water solutions.

2. 10 Plots Daughters

Food Security

Agro climatology

Warnings and Water solutions.

3. 50 Plots

granddaughters:

Food Security and Agro climatology Alerts

TOTAL: 122 Families with

adaptation measures

Mother School: 2.

Daughter Plots: 20.

Granddaughter Plots: 100.

Each family with a daughter plot, must teach a

group of plots granddaughters.

The appropriation of these results, will allow

replicate the schools in other areas

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