Indigenous communities and climate change

Due to climate change, a general increase in temperatures is expected, decreasing agricultural productivity. Sustainability and food security are promoted in indigenous Mapuche communities in rural areas of Argentina and Chile.

Context of the story

To date, both INTA in Argentina and INIA in Chile have designed and validated technologies in conjunction with family producers that promote increases in production, optimizing the suitability of local livestock systems. These innovations have already been implemented in demonstration fields with promising results. However, the need for additional resources and a deeper inter-institutional effort is imperative to disseminate these innovations on a larger scale. Likewise, we lack analyses regarding GHG emissions in these systems, and the influence of new technologies in their reduction is unknown.

Collaborate with five indigenous communities belonging to the Mapuche ethnic group in Argentina and Chile, in which we will establish climate-smart innovation units

The implemented initiative

This Technical Cooperation (TC) aims to improve food viability and resilience in indigenous Mapuche agrarian communities, along with their production systems, addressing the requirements for adaptation to climate changes expected in the contexts of Argentina and Chile, through adaptation and mitigation strategies against climate change.

Improving food viability and resilience in indigenous Mapuche agrarian communities

The technological solution

Establish climate-smart innovation units. By the end of the first year, we expect to have a characterization of the predominant indicators in the communities' productive systems, while at the end of the project we anticipate an increase in these indicators in terms of productivity and conservation of natural resources and a reduction in the intensity of GHG emissions.

Participating countries

Type of project

Agronomic Practices

Results

At the end of the first year, we expect to have a characterization of the predominant indicators in the productive systems of the communities, while at the end of the project we anticipate an increase in said indicators in terms of productivity and conservation of natural resources and a reduction in the intensity of GHG emissions.