1.8 Village level adaptation measures enables remote Burmese Communities to cope better with climate change

Ideas that inspired us

• On farm adaption must be complemented by landscape level adaptation. Farmers lives are too intertwined with forests and rivers in the community.
• Grassroots oriented field facilitators can be tooled up to help communities build their adaptive capacity.

Remarkable Communities

Upland communities in Shan and Kachin

Catalytic projects that helped model the way

METTA NOVIB upland agriculture and community forestry climate change adaptation project

Key Features

Mentors and Co-travelers

Personal Insights

• Upland agriculture and community forestry programs need to be addressed simultaneously.
• Time not only money, is much needed to make CCA at village level effective. This means that projects should have at least 5 years presence, not 2 years. Only small amounts of funding are needed, not large sums, for interventions to be sustainable.