Socio-ecological Resilience against Adverse Weather Conditions

Executive Summary

Family farming (FA) systems located in marginal areas are frequently more vulnerable to the negative effects of the climate and its changes. The sustainable intensification (IS) of these systems should be associated with their socio-ecological diversification, and tend to increase and / or stabilize the productivity of their resources, their profitability, maintain the ecological and cultural integrity of the landscapes, and increase the adaptive capacity of the socio-ecosystem to current and future environmental variables. In other words, to increase their socio-ecological resilience.

The objective of this Seed Fund was to create a platform for the exchange of knowledge on the subject of socio-ecological resilience to climatic adversities in PA systems; involving public-private, national, regional and international institutions that favor a comprehensive approach to the subject. The platform was led by INTA (Argentina) and made up of institutions from Argentina and Colombia. In the workshop, the possibility of preparing a Consensus Project based on the creation of a broader platform, integrating new public and private institutions, and the national representations of the member countries of FONTAGRO that joined this meeting was analyzed. An additional objective was to strengthen the agro-socio-ecological diversity of the project to the conditions of Family Farming in the piedmont and plains of Traslasierra (province of Córdoba), the Puna jujeña (Pozuelos Basin), the Patagonian steppe of Rio Negro ( Cerro Alto), and the Andean-Amazon Piedmont of Caquetá (Caquetá Department), will be integrated into the north-central Region of the Dominican Republic (La Vega province), the Andean Region of Ecuador (sub-basin of the Chimbo river, Cantones Guaranda and Chillanes, Bolívar Province) and the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica (Jesús María Basin, Puntarenas Province), with activities financed with own funds that will form the counterpart of the FONTAGRO Consensus Project.

The technological solution

The platform will formulate a proposal for international technical cooperation to evaluate the impact of innovations for the sustainable intensification of family farming, in pilot areas with a gradient of contrasting climatic limitations; through the interdisciplinary approach, the co-construction of knowledge and the use of participatory methodological tools.

Results

Beneficiaries

Scientists from participating institutions

Sustainable Development Goals

Main donors

Dissemination products