Protecting food and nutrition security from negative impacts of climate related shocks & stresses
Description
CARE aims to strengthen producers' capacities to deal with shocks and stresses, manage risks and transform their lives in response to new hazards and opportunities. We seek to address the underlying causes of vulnerability of different groups of people and improve the social, economic and ecological systems and structures that support them. CARE's Increasing Resilience Guidance Note outlines how resilience goes beyond the ability to recover from shocks to include addressing the context that makes people vulnerable, including reducing the drivers of risks, such as the emissions that cause climate change. This includes four key capacities for communities and individuals:
• Anticipatory capacity: Increasing capacity to plan for and adapt to shocks/stressors through community-based adaptation approaches, including Participatory Scenario Planning.
• Adaptive capacity: Improving adaptive capacity in climate-resilient agriculture and improving non-agricultural livelihood options to improve coping both in the short and long terms.
• Absorptive capacity: Building savings and stocks and using shock-responsive agriculture (ie, short-cycle crops) to help households and communities to absorb shocks.
• Transformative capacity: Functional government safety nets providing opportunities for graduation, empowerment and more durable reduction of vulnerability.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Food and water security for nutrition
Description
Sustainable agricultural inputs and water are essential to all of CARE's outcome areas, vital resources for all sectors and foundational to resilience. Water scarcity and insecurity, caused by poor water resources management and exacerbated by climate change, drive cycles of drought and food insecurity, migration and chronic emergencies. CARE’s work to ensure the protection, restoration and management of ecosystems that supply water resources is a critical path to ensuring food security, nutrition and livelihoods. It reduces forced migration and humanitarian emergencies, mitigates potential for conflict and promotes wider economic and social well-being.
CARE will build on decades of experience in landscape approaches, inclusive governance, integrated water resources management, climate change adaptation and water- and climate-smart agriculture models to ensure that communities and governments are addressing risks to the ecosystems upon which they depend. We will enable women and youth to engage in the development and scale-up of innovations and models for improved water and agriculture resource management and protection. We also will continue to engage with partners at all levels in driving better practice and policy. Our work to increase land- and water-use efficiency and reduce water stress includes promoting climate- and water-smart agriculture to reduce agricultural water withdrawals, increase rainwater harvesting and ensure women small-scale farmers have access to water for agriculture, especially in vulnerable watersheds and water-scarce contexts. This work also relies on the integration of agriculture and water resource management in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and humanitarian, nexus and development interventions.
GNR assessment
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Unverified
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Low
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Impact >
Food and nutrition security
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percentage of people who employ practices to protect their food and nutrition security from the negative impacts of climate-related shocks and stresses |
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| Measurement plan | Unknown |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | TBD | 2021 |
| Target | TBD | November 2030 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 446,229 people applied practices to protect their livelihoods from negative impact of climate-related shocks and stresses. | November 2023 |
Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator's updated (latest) level or status, or the data provided were not in a format allowing calculation of progress.
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