Title: Mapping climate change adaptive capacity and vulnerability of smallholder agricultural livelihoods in Central America: ranking and descriptive approaches to support adaptation strategies

Journal: Climatic Change

Authors:

Claudia Bouroncle1*, Pablo Imbach1, Beatriz Rodrguez-Snchez2, Claudia Medelln1, Armando Martinez-Valle2, Peter Lderach2

Affiliations:

1. Climate Change Program, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica

2. Decision and Policy Analysis Research Area (DAPA), International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

* Corresponding author e-mail: cbouron@catie.ac.cr

Supplementary Material 4. Adaptive capacity indicators (see Table 1 in text) and calculation method used in this study. Where the name of the indicator includes the word rural, the measurement of the indicator considered only people and dwellings in the rural areas of each municipality.

Indicator

Indicator calculation

Rural households with access to safe drinking water

The ratio of the number of households that receive water i) that has received some purification treatment and ii) is distributed by a public, private or community network, to the total number of households

Primary healthcare units per 1000 people

The ratio of the number of centres of primary health care, to the total number of inhabitants

Rural school-aged population that attends school

The ratio of the number of people aged 7 17 attending school, to the total number of people aged 7 - 17

Rural dwellings built with long-lasting materials

The ratio of the number of dwellings with walls, roof and floor built with long-lasting materials (i.e. not mud, adobe or straw), to the total number of dwellings

Rural gender parity index

The ratio of the number of men aged 15 or more who can read and write to the number of women in the same condition

Entitled agricultural production units

The ratio of the number of agricultural production units that have legal land tenure, enabling the owner to access credit and other benefits, to the total number of agricultural production units

Agricultural production units that received technical assistance

The ratio of the number of agricultural production units that received a credit in a set of time period, to the total agricultural production units

Roads density

The ratio of the length of paved roads in linear kilometres, to the total area in square kilometres of the municipality

Rural economically active population employed in non-agricultural activities

The ratio of the number of people aged 15 or more whose main economic activity is not related to agriculture, to the total number of people aged 15 employed or actively seeking employment.

Agricultural production units that received a loan

The ratio of the number of agricultural production units that received a loan in an established period of time, to the total number of agricultural production units

Rural demographic dependency ratio

The ratio of the number of children (0-14) and older persons ( 65), to the number of people constituting the working-age population (15-64)