Peru - Strategies for Adaptation and Innovation of Agriculture Against Climate Change

Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA) helping the farmers in the central highlands to adapt to climate variability.

The World Bank's Social Development Department, together with the Agriculture and Rural Development Department, and external partners undertook a work program on Local Institutions and Climate Change to address the importance of strong local institutions and their long-term presence in successful implementation of community-based adaptation strategies.

Supported by the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program, and the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (Norway-Finland), series of activities were carried out in partnership with the Bank's regional departments from Africa, Latin America and Middle East regions and the World Bank Institute.

These short videos were prepared in coordination with the World Bank Institute and the local task teams to highlight some of the individual case studies in participating countries. They document some of the challenges of climate risks faced at the local level and show collective local response mechanisms
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[jacobstone]

This is the kind of stuff the wealthy should be investing in.

We all whine about climate change.

These people, for disparate, productive, reasons'; are solving these problems'.

It is our apathy, and our inability to envision where each of us can be useful to each other that will destroy us as a species.

I can only pray for these people, live simply, and garden when the weather where I live is right.

I can still relate though, because grasses are getting dryer here too, and because my beloved Sierra' are drying up as well.

The rich and powerful: should put in infrastructure to preserve glaciers, invest in glacier preservation, invest in research to preserve high altitude grazing herds of alpaca and other pasture animals that sustain high altitude Ecosystems globally.

The working class folk like me: use less energy, buy your produce locally, if possibly purchase and travel to places where local goods and tourism support sustainable living in these places.

Ask how you can help to keep glaciers, soil systems, and peoples' traditional livelihoods intact.

I mean; come on folks! These people live hard lives; if we can make if just a little bit easier, and slow down the negative trends from climate change; why not?