Let's Act to Adapt: Dealing with Climate Change: A community information toolkit on adaptation
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UNCCD Library
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Book
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978-99945-0-023-9
This information toolkit is based on the initial Natse Otweya! prototype that was developed with farmers in the Omusati Region in 2008, and that has been tested and applied since then throughout Namibia, including in the Kunene Region. As part of the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP-NAM), a project coordinated by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), the Natse Otweya! experience is now being scaled up to a regional approach, with five toolkits for the whole of Namibia.
The initial toolkit focused very strongly on farming issues but has now been extended to acknowledge that our livelihoods are more broadly affected by climate change. While the focus on farming remains, rural livelihoods are more comprehensively covered. Gender considerations are essential for successful adaptation – and it is very important that adaptation strategies and approaches do not perpetuate or increase discrimination against vulnerable groups such as women, youth or the elderly.
This is the first comprehensive and dedicated resource for farmers, natural resource users and their service providers in the Kunene Region to learn about what climate change is, what the expected impacts are for Namibia and this regions in particular, and more importantly, it provides some preliminary ideas on options for adaptations that people can apply to start dealing with the threats. The toolkit is available directly to local farmers and to extension personnel, especially from the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF), the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), regional councils, teachers, church leaders, conservancies, NGOs and CBOs and many different individuals and organisations. The material is designed to be used in working sessions to start discussions and explore the issues of climate change and to guide resource users in taking the first steps to collaboratively deal with specific regional climate change issues. Inputs from farmers in the Kunene Region have formed the basis of this toolkit, which includes art work that illustrates climate change topics of most concern to the resource users in the region
The initial toolkit focused very strongly on farming issues but has now been extended to acknowledge that our livelihoods are more broadly affected by climate change. While the focus on farming remains, rural livelihoods are more comprehensively covered. Gender considerations are essential for successful adaptation – and it is very important that adaptation strategies and approaches do not perpetuate or increase discrimination against vulnerable groups such as women, youth or the elderly.
This is the first comprehensive and dedicated resource for farmers, natural resource users and their service providers in the Kunene Region to learn about what climate change is, what the expected impacts are for Namibia and this regions in particular, and more importantly, it provides some preliminary ideas on options for adaptations that people can apply to start dealing with the threats. The toolkit is available directly to local farmers and to extension personnel, especially from the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF), the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), regional councils, teachers, church leaders, conservancies, NGOs and CBOs and many different individuals and organisations. The material is designed to be used in working sessions to start discussions and explore the issues of climate change and to guide resource users in taking the first steps to collaboratively deal with specific regional climate change issues. Inputs from farmers in the Kunene Region have formed the basis of this toolkit, which includes art work that illustrates climate change topics of most concern to the resource users in the region
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Namibia
Keywords
climate change
adaptation strategy
agriculture
resilience
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