From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses (day 4)
Channel: IIED
Date: 2022-02-04

This virtual Forest and Farm Facility training-of-trainers event took place over five days from 10-14 January 2022. 

It provided a refresher course on two toolkits that have been developed to support practitioners in improving business incubation and risk management processes – plus adding a new module on 30 practical options to climate-proof your business.

Day 4. Thirty options for climate resilience

Days 4 and 5 are based on lessons from the 'Diversification for climate resilience. Thirty options for forest and farm producer organisations' publication: https://pubs.iied.org/20311iied

The infographic for 30 resilience options is also available on the FAO website: https://www.fao.org/3/cb5931en/cb5931en.pdf 

1:22 - Module 10 - Defining and understanding climate resilience

Climate change poses a series of risks to forest and farm producer organisations and their businesses, so this session introduces a framework for understanding the threats posed by climate change, and how to build climate resilience. 

After this session participants will understand a framework for thinking about climate resilience that fits with the latest thinking from the Global Resilience Partnership. 

37:39 - Module 11: Introducing 30 options for climate resilience – and social organisational option for resilience 

In this session participants are introduced to a rapid overview of how to diversify their resilience responses using 30 options for climate resilience. After this session, participants will have confidence that they know most of the options available to build climate resilience – and especially those to do with social organisation.

1:16:35 - Module 12 - Ecological and technological options for resilience

In this session participants are introduced in more detail to the ecological and technological options for climate resilience – things that any farmer can do climate proof their production system.