Compendium of community and indigenous strategies for climate change adaptation : focus on addressing water scarcity in agriculture Paperback / softback

Climate change is a major challenge for life on Earth.

It is mainly manifested through modifications of average temperature, rainfall intensity and patterns, winds and solar radiation.

These modifications significantly affect basic resources, such as land and water resources.

Populations at disproportionately higher risk of adverse consequences with global warming of 1.5eC and beyond include disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, some indigenous peoples, and local communities dependent on agricultural or coastal livelihoods (IPCC, 2018).

Therefore, adaptation measures are recommended in order to cope with climate change.

Indigenous peoples have developed practices for climate change adaptation, based on their long-term experience with adverse climatic effects.

There was thus a need to identify such practices as they could be effectively mainstreamed in community-based adaptation programmes.

This report makes an inventory of indigenous and community adaptation practices across the world