Description
Climate change has had a significant impact on ecosystems and the welfare of vulnerable communities in Indonesia. The real impacts of climate change are felt by vulnerable communities living on small islands. These impacts include sea level rise, extreme weather, drought, flooding, and landslides. However, scientific documentation relating to the extent of community vulnerability level to climate change impacts on small islands in Indonesia is limited.
On the other hand, there is a wide range of scientific evidence showing that agroforestry systems can be a promising alternative option to increase the socio-environmental resilience to climate change impacts experienced by vulnerable communities. More specifically, agroforestry systems can increase the adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities, for example, supporting them in addressing the risks of crop failure due to extreme weather. In addition, gender is also considered to be an important aspect of achieving climate resilience. However, studies that adopt a gender-sensitive approach in the context of agroforestry and climate resilience are limited. Accordingly, it is necessary to conduct collaborative research that can encourage climate related policies to improve the socio-environmental resilience of vulnerable communities in small islands in Indonesia, by utilizing agroforestry models and gender-sensitive approaches.
The objectives of this collaborative research are: 1) Conduct scoping and assessment of pre-conditions and existing baseline, based on the result of prior research; 2) Conduct gender responsive studies on how how ecosystem resilience and risk reduction modeling can be developed to reduce the level of community vulnerability to climate change impacts by implementing gender sensitive agroforestry practices; 3) Increase knowledge of key beneficiaries and implement gender-sensitive agroforestry practices; 4) Facilitate the development of policy instruments that promote gender-sensitive agroforestry practices; 5) Develop enabling conditions for designing pilot recommendations that will be adopted by communities and supported by the government about gender-sensitive agroforestry practices as part of climate resilience strategies in small islands.
CIFOR took on the role of being both responsible and the main implementer of activities related to Objective 5 of this research "developing enabling conditions for designing pilot recommendations that will be adopted by communities and supported by the government about gender-sensitive agroforestry practices as part of climate resilience strategies in small islands".
