Los proyectos para la adaptación al cambio climático suelen ser diseñados de arriba hacia abajo y orientados hacia soluciones técnicas. De esta manera fácilmente se eclipsa la diversidad de estrategias de adaptación las cuales los actores locales desenvuelven en su rutina diaria. Además, se suele desconocer la variedad de maneras en que estas estrategias operan y la diversidad de dimensiones sociales que se involucran.
Este panel recopilará varios ejemplos de maneras en que la población humana en distintos lugares del mundo se prepara ante los impactos del cambio climático. Las estrategias pueden incluir técnicas cotidianas como sistemas de riego o construcciones resilientes que se basan en saberes locales. Varias comunidades del mundo también se enfrentan a los efectos del cambio climático por formas alternativas de la organización social y cooperación, tales como el manejo comunitario de los recursos naturales o la agricultura colectiva en vez de la producción agrícola individual. El intercambio de saberes, ideas y experiencias locales juega un papel clave en este proceso de desarrollar estrategias. De tal manera el panel abordará ejemplos de la transferencia de conocimiento y la sinergia entre diferentes sistemas de conocimiento que puede emerger. Y por lo último, enfrentamientos locales con el cambio climático también pueden incluir acciones políticas que abordan causas del cambio climático a nivel nacional y global en vez de enfocarse solamente en estrategias de adaptación in situ. Por consiguiente, uno de los enfoques del panel será la diversidad de formas del activismo climático organizado por actores locales.
El panel será un espacio para presentar diferentes estrategias e inspirarse mutuamente. Se reflexionará sobre las posibilidades de aplicación de las estrategias presentadas, pero también se explorarán sus limitaciones y retos que pueden surgir en este proceso. Se invitan tanto a personas
Intervenciones
Training from producer to producer, an efficient toll for knowledge transfer – Ingo Mordhorst (ABD Colombia)
ABD Colombia is developing a methodology for training from producer to producer, focusing on two principles: First, biodynamic agriculture as such is one of the solutions for mitigating climate change, ensuring at the same time food sovereignty, and improving the socioeconomic conditions of the producers. Second, each producer has expertise based on his/her task and shares experiences and results. The impacts of multiplication are considerable.
To fulfill this objective, it is necessary to create culture of trust in which the producers can share experiences, difficulties and challenges they face on a daily basis. This happens in the field, in the participants’ farms. This process has built trust, community and mutual aid, and enabled dissemination of practices in a very short term.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as a strategy to cope with climate change – Baldur Kapusta (University of Marburg)
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a food system which is characterized by direct contact between producers and consumers: A group finances the production of a farm and receives the harvest on base of shared risk. The CSA-movement contributes – independent from governmental structures – to regional and organic food, which is a crucial element for the reduction of emissions.
Without intermediaries the distribution is near and reduces the logistics. In the spirit of Food Sovereignty, the food is little processed and valuable for the health of nature and the people and not for the benefits of companies. The presentation demonstrates how this food system is a bottom-up response to some current crisis in which the agribusiness has its share.
Sustainable tourism as a mechanism for adaptation to climate change in the Ecuadorian Amazon – Natali Cáceres Arteaga (Universidad Central del Ecuador)
The Ecuadorian Amazon region is characterized by high vulnerability. According to the forecast, the annual mean temperature will increase by between 0.75ºC – 0.9ºC for the period from 2011 to 2040, 1.3ºC – 2.1ºC from 2041 to 2070 and 1.3ºC – 3.5ºC around the end of the century, while the change will be between 0.6ºC and 0.75ºC at the national level. In this complex context, the inhabitants of the Arajuno Canton decided to explore the potential of tourism activity through the creation of the tourist route of Oglán – both as a source of income and for the purpose of maintaining and sharing their ancestral knowledge. The investigation I will present aims to analyze the perception of the indigenous communities of Kichwa in the Arajuno Canton about the sustainable tourism as a mechanism for adaptation to climate change and its contributions to a just post-oil transition model.
Non-state actor’s advocacy at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Insights from the international Indigenous Peoples’ movement – Rosario Carmona (University of Bonn)
Climate change is the most significant environmental challenge we face on a global scale. Its direct effects –e.g. water scarcity, extreme events– and indirect effects generate new risks, increase inequality scenarios, and promote changes at national, regional and local scales. The urgency has
convened the international community to mitigate their causes and adapt to their effects. However, the success of multilateral agreements and the primacy of technocratic measures are in question. Progressively, non-state actors –civil society and Indigenous Peoples– are organising to demand participation and implement their responses. This presentation analyses the strategies that the international Indigenous movement has deployed to access spaces for representation and participation within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Through the main barriers they face and the principal achievements they have made, we will analyse what this participation means for Indigenous Peoples’; historical demands for the recognition of their rights.