FONTAGRO - PROADAPT Articulation: Building Resilience in the Gran Chaco Americano

The Gran Chaco represents the second largest forest region in Latin America after the Amazon jungle and is shared between Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and a small part of Brazil. Climate vulnerability studies of the Gran Chaco foresee significant impacts in the next three decades, particularly due to greater risk of droughts and floods and an increase in extreme climatic phenomena. This climatic variability is already affecting production systems, with loss of agro-productivity and reduction in the quality and availability of water, presenting an urgent need to accelerate the creation of new capacities, instruments, knowledge, and production and marketing models that enable producers of the Gran Chaco and its ecosystems to reduce their vulnerability.

PROADAPT is a regional initiative financed by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and the Nordic Development Fund (FND) with US $ 11.9 million to help micro, small and medium-sized companies adapt to climate change and access opportunities for green business.

The project proposes South-South cooperation for the exchange of knowledge and experiences on climate change resilience, in which organizations from Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina will participate. The objective is to develop a proposal that increases the resilience of small producers and poor communities in the Gran Chaco.