| Sumario: | Assessing options for adapting to climate change is an important part of building resilient fishing and
farming communities.
This brochure is part of a series that collectively detail how a community-based assessment of climate
change was used in partnership with coastal communities and provincial and national-level stakeholders
in Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. The assessment contains four distinct, but related, steps (Fig 1)
focused on supporting community-level decision-making for adaptation through a series of participatory
action research activities. Each brochure in this series details a specific activity in the four-step assessment.
This series of eight brochures is primarily aimed for use where resources are limited or where it is more
appropriate to use a rapid, qualitative and non-data intensive method of assessment. Community
leaders, local NGOs and regional and national-level government representatives in developing countries
may find this series useful.
In this brochure we provide details of an activity relating to the ‘Evaluation of options’ step of the
assessment, namely Landscape Function Analysis (LFA). This activity was conducted with community
members to measure the ecological function of different types of home garden production systems
(Figs 2-5).
More specifically, the following questions were posed:
• How well do different home garden types function ecologically (using soil condition as an indicator)?
• Which parts of a home garden (e.g., leaf litter, crop residue) provide the most benefits in terms of
ecological functioning?
• How might these functions change due to the introduction of adaptation actions?
• How can communities improve ecological function of agricultural land to enhance resilience to
climate change?
Fig 1: The four steps taken by community, local NGOs and regional and national government
representatives in developing a plan to respond to climate change. Each step addresses specific
questions likely to be asked by community members needing to adapt.
Scoping
What are key natural
resource issues and drivers
of change impacting the
resilience of fishers’ and
farmers’ livelihoods?
Research method:
Climate analysis
Identifying options
What are likely impacts of
a changing climate and
what adaptations might be
useful?
Research method:
Impact and adaptation
assessment workshop
What does a desirable
future farming/fishing
livelihood look like?
Research method:
Community visioning
activity
Evaluation
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