Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

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Publication date
2009-11-04
Subject
Climate change
Gender
Keywords
Climate change adaptation
Country
Bolivia

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam International
Series
Climate Change and Poverty National Reports
Document type
Research report
Description
Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how they are adapting to it. Poor women and men throughout Bolivia are already experiencing the consequences of climate change, but in most cases are ill-equipped to adapt to the present and future impacts. The perception of many villagers and local farmers is that the climate is already changing in terms of the unpredictability of the rainfall, more extreme weather events and higher temperatures, with negative impacts for their livelihoods. Women are often the hardest hit.
Table of contents
Executive Summary, Introduction, 1. Poverty, vulnerability and climate change, 2. Climate change impacts: past, present and future 3. The highlands, water is life, 4. The valleys, predicting the weather 5. The lowlands, rescuing the past, 6. The Platform of Social Organisations against Climate Change, 7. Government perspectives on climate change and adaptation, 8. Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages
70
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/111968
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/bolivia-climate-change-poverty-and-adaptation-111968
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