Livelihoods for Resilience Activity

Mechanisms to Manage Climate Change and

Its Impacts

January 29 -31, 2018

Addis Ababa
ADAPTAION AND MITIGATION
 RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Mitigation
• Actions to reduce the concentration of GHG in the atmosphere
in order to reduce climate change
 Cutting emissions of greenhouse gases
 Increasing sinks
Adaptation
• Actions that people take in response to or in anticipation of
projected or actual changes in climate
 To reduce adverse impacts
 To take advantage of opportunities
Adaptation and Coping Strategies
HOW IS ADAPTATION DIFFERENT FROM COPING?
 COPING
It is important to note that coping is typically a short-term
action during and immediately following a shock.

As with vulnerability and adaptive capacity, coping strategies

vary between different communities and groups within
communities.
 ADAPTATION

Adaptation strategies should be designed to build on existing

coping strategies where appropriate.

However, in many cases, the most vulnerable people are

employing coping strategies which are neither effective nor
sustainable.
IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING MEASURES ARE COPING OR ADAPTATION
• Alter fertilizer rates to maintain grain or fruit quality
• Rely on less preferred and less expensive foods
• Borrow food from a friend or relative
• Purchase food on credit
• Introduce forest conservation
• Gather wild food, hunt, or harvest immature crops
• Altering amounts and timing of irrigation and other
water management; Consume seed stock held for
next season
• Send children to eat with neighbors
• Change the timing or location of cropping
activities
• Diversify income
• Send household members to beg
• Temporary and permanent migration in search of
employment,
• Restrict consumption by adults in
order for small children to eat
• Increase use of climate forecasting
to reduce production risk
• Collect of wild foods
• Reduce number of meals eaten in a
day
• Use of crop varieties and species
for increased resistance to heat
shock and drought
• Skip entire days without eating
• Modification of grazing times
• Plan landscapes to minimize fire
and insect damage
• Sale of assets such as livestock
and agricultural tools
• Adjusting harvesting schedules.
HOW IS ADAPTATION DIFFERENT FROM COPING?
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