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Enhancing Livelihoods and Strengthening Climate Change Resilience in Rural Communities in Guatemala - GCP/GUA/030/ROK

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Guatemala has a population of 16 million, 51.5 percent of whom are women and 40 percent Indigenous Peoples, with 59.3 percent of the population living in poverty. In recent years, the impact of climate variability, such as periods of excess rainfall alternating with periods of drought, has resulted in ecosystem loss, as well as a reduction in water resource quality and availability. Agriculture, which is the main source of income in rural areas, is one of the most affected sectors. This is the backdrop to the project entitled, “Improving the livelihoods and resilience of rural communities in Guatemala through adaptation to climate change and variability”. The project aims to strengthen rural producers’ resilience and adaptation to climate change and variability and to make their livelihoods more sustainable by restoring their degraded agroforestry landscapes and providing them with the right conditions for sustainable business development. The project therefore responded to needs and priorities identified in climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security and nutrition and livelihood improvement in ten municipalities in the departments of Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz and Petén, which are the areas worst affected by the impact of climate change. The project benefited 8 175 participants, 33 percent of whom were women.

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