Promoting and scaling diversification within the management of Amazon forest resources as an Ecosystem-based Adaptation measure in Bolivia
Project Information
This project is focused on supporting the implementation of comprehensive forest management of the Bolivian Amazon by updating a comprehensive forest management of the Bolivian Amazon by updating and disseminating the scientific and research data published on the Amazonian Fruits and Climate Change Observatory1 (AFCCO) and empowering local communities under an Ecosystem-based Adaptation approach (EbA). Through the community-based management of standing forests it is possible to maintain resilience capacity against the impacts of climate change.
Through this project we will reach community-based productive initiatives, as well as local and regional decision-makers by:
- Collecting and disseminating updated socio-environmental information related to non-timber forest products (Brazil nut, açaí palm and others) in the Bolivian Amazon through the AFCCO.
- Implementing an early warning and monitoring system of non-timber forest products (mainly Brazil nut) by combining technology with local knowledge to plan for periods of low natural production of wild forest resources.
- Strengthening capacities of local initiatives based on non-timber forest products, identifying and disseminating a portfolio of EbA measures and bottleneck solutions for forest resource management.
- Promoting the use of AFCCO by local and regional decision-makers.
This project, with the support of the Global EbA Fund, expects to rescale the results generated from EbA adaptation throughout the northern Bolivian Amazon as well as throughout the Madre de Dios basin, including Peru.
“Healthy forests are productive, productive forests are resilient to climate change”
Project Status
The consolidation of a productive diversification in Pando requires that access to accurate and updated information helps the initiatives, decision makers and other stakeholders make reasoned decisions throughout the different steps of the value chains in which they are a part of. The AFCCO is a digital repository with ecological and socioeconomic information on Amazonian fruits, with forest and climate variability in Pando that is periodically updated. The information available in the AFCCO is aimed at a technical, academic, and even scientific audience, creating a gap between the knowledge and the producers. Under the principle of democratizing information, the team seeks to close this gap by decoding the AFCCO technical information into informative, accurate and useful material for producers into a so-called “yamachi” backpack (an open basket that has the shape like that of a backpack made by the indigenous people). In addition, they seek to identify with the indigenous population ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) actions that allow the construction of adaptation agendas with pilot actions that will be implemented within the project. They are exchanging all these experiences with the productive initiatives occurring in the Madre de Dios region in Peru. The team is convinced that a healthy forest is a productive forest, and a productive forest is a forest resilient to climate change.
