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Climate Frontline
Arican Communities Adapting to Survive
Climate Frontline
Arican Communities Adapting To Survive
This is a joint publication by the ollowing organisations: Concern Universal, FARM-Arica, Find
Your Feet, Sel Help Arica and Utviklingsondet/The Development Fund
The content – text and photos – is a collaborative efort, produced by staf and writers rom
several organisations in Arica and Europe. Read more about us on pages 48-49
The Development Fund in Norway has coordinated the editing and production
Small Foundation provided the unding or this publication
The analysis on page 43 has been written by Joanne Lambert and David Dodman, International
Institute or Environment and Development (IIED)
Layout and standardised PDF by 2T&T Partners NUF, Norway
Published in 2009
Printed in the UK by Butler, Tanner & Dennis
All photographs by the organisations, except: Cover, © Getty Images by Daniel Berehulak
Pages 5, 7 and 52, © Panos Pictures by Petterik Wiggers
ISBN: 978-82-91923-10-9
Country statistics are derived rom the CIA World Factbook and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
Indicator. (Extreme Poverty: Proportion o population below $1 a day - purchasing power parities. Children in
School: Enrolled in elementary education.)
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Arica Adapting to Climate Change....................................6 Extreme Weather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Map o Arica....................................................... 10
Climate Change: Unpredictable Rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Dam Enables Three Harvests a Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Change From Pastoralism To Irrigated Farming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Water Under Our Feet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Conclusion: Unpredictable Rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Climate Change: Deorestation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Disappearing Forests, Rivers and Ponds........................... 20 Mud Stoves Reduce Deorestation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Training Centre Initiates Tree-Planting Campaigns................. 24
Conclusion: Deorestation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Climate Adaptation: Agricultural Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
A Pioneer o New Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Miraculous Harvests in a Starvation Area.......................... 30
Farming For All Eventualities...................................... 32
Conclusion: Agricultural Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Climate Adaptation: Knowledge and Education...................... 35
Farmer-to-Farmer Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 A Better Future or Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Inormation and Advocacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Conclusion: Knowledge and Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Analysis: Climate Adaptation – The Way Forward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Organisations on the Frontline o Climate Adaptation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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