Sabiá Center promotes global exchange on climate adaptation experiences in the Brazilian semi-arid region

By Rosa Sampaio
Sabiá Center journalist

On May 9, the Sabiá Center, in partnership with the ADAPTATION FUND – an international fund that finances projects and programs to help developing countries, especially those that are most vulnerable, adapt to the effects of climate change, will carry out an exchange visit to three experiences in the agreste region of Pernambuco, throughout the morning, in the rural areas of the municipalities of Vertentes and Vertente do Lério.

The delegation will learn about social technologies aimed at living in the semi-arid region and contributing to adaptation to the climate crisis, such as plate cisterns (16 and 52 thousand liters), the Reuse of Grey Water in the Agroforestry System (RAC/SAF), Creole seed banks, the Solidarity Revolving Fund, market access actions (fairs and food access programs) and the Agroforestry School, run by Centro Sabiá.

In the afternoon, the guests took part in a seminar to exchange knowledge on climate adaptation in dry areas, at the Reserve Hotel in Surubim-PE. Around 80 people took part, in addition to the team and the farmers who will be accompanying the visits. At the end of the day, the delegation returns to Recife.

The ADAPTATION FUND was created in 2001 under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The exchange visit will be with all the entities that are managing the fund around the world, mainly from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.