Community-based adaptation: Fishing

Community-based adaptation to climate change focuses on people and their relationship to the resources around them.

EMG worked with small-scale farmer organisations and artisanal fishers in exploring how they can build their community's resilience to the impacts of climate change. Together with each group, we tried to gain a deeper understanding of the particular impacts of climate change on their lives and livelihoods, explored the questions that concern them, and developed a set of action-research activities to pursue. Apart from bringing benefits to the participating groups, the work aimed to test and promote an Action Research methodology.

The impetus for some of this work came out of the testimonies made to the Pan-African Climate Change Hearings, hosted by EMG and Oxfam in Cape Town in October 2009.

Links:

If you'd like to read the full article, download here

Click here to read the testimonies from South African participants.

Action Research methodology 

Visit the National Lotteries Board website 

Participatory Adaptation Handbook

Participatory Adaptation Handbook : A practitioner's guide for facilitating people centred adaptation to climate change

EMG is part of the consortium responsible for planning, writing and launching this fantastic resource for anyone involved in community-based adaptation work.

LINK: Download the Participatory Adaptation Handbook (3.1MB PDF)

or contact us for a hard-copy. Accompanying the book is a set of facilitation cards Experiental Learning for Adaptation - an amazing resource for anyone wanting to facilitate a community group.

Young voices on Climate Change II

In our last post we included, as part of our Lotto Environmental Justice Programme we carried articles from two of the interns on the project Abonga and Sizwe, and three of their friends Xolisa, Loyiso and Lonwabo, who are participating in the Climate Tracker: Path to Paris Programme. These short pieces focused on aspects of Climate Change that interest them and count towards helping them get to Paris for the COP21. The great news is that Sizwe is in Paris as this is being posed! Congratulations Sizwe! Here is a picture of him at the airport with his friends saying Bon Voyage! 

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To keep the Environmental Justice Flag flying in South Africa while Sizwe is away Abonga, Xolisa, Loyiso and Lonwabo have written more excellent articles which you can read below.

LINKS:

To read the entire article and all the stories, download here.

Abonga Tom's story: The Importance of solar power in South Africa

Lonwabo Mfenguza's story: Water is not an infinite resource

Loyiso Hulushe's story: Sustain the people

Xolisa Bangani's story: Energy crisis in the dark continent of Africa