Protecting food and nutrition security from negative impacts of climate related shocks & stresses

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 Resilience Guidance Note outlines how resilience goes beyond the ability to recover from shocks, and includes addressing the context that makes people vulnerable, including reducing the drivers of risks such as those emissions that cause climate change. This includes four key capacities, for communities and individuals:

Anticipatory Capacity: Increasing capacity to plan and adapt to shocks/stressors, through Community Based Adaptation approaches, including Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP);

Adaptive Capacity: Improving adaptive capacity in climate resilient agriculture, and improving non-agricultural livelihood options to improve coping, both in the short term and long term;

Absorptive Capacity: Building savings, stocks and using shock responsive agriculture (i.e. short cycle crops) to help households & communities absorb shocks;

Transformative Capacity: Functional government safety-nets that provide opportunities for graduation, empowerment and more durable reduction in vulnerability.