International Seminar Climate Change

CRGR | ESPAÑA | 14 NOV. During the 9th and 10th of November the International Seminar «Climate Change, Challenges and Opportunities for Andalusian Cooperation» was held at the Scientific Documentation Center of the University of Granada.

This seminar was part of the research project «Adaptation to drought risk. Cooperative tools for adaptation to climate change in Andalusia and Central America «funded by the Andalusian Agency for International Development Cooperation (AACID).

The main objective of this seminar was to share experiences and tools that provide adaptation facilities to climate change and, at the same time, generate a space for meeting, debate and reflection on the challenges, tools and opportunities for cooperation for development.

Among the participants from 4 countries, from El Salvador, participated María Magdalena Cortez, regional representative of the Regional Agreement for Risk Management, who shared the experience that exists as a network on the phenomenon of drought in Central America and on the Project «Response to the effects of the drought on the Food Security of the Dry Corridor Families in Central America to reduce the food insecurity of 2,070 vulnerable households» which was carried out in the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, through the National Risk Management Tables.

According to Magdalena Cortez, the figures are «More than 3.5 million people have been affected in recent years by the drought in the Central American Dry Corridor.»

«The communities of the dry Central American corridor where we work as CRGR are highly vulnerable and suffer since 2012 irregular rain cycles, associated with the phenomenon of the child that has been recurrent and has caused losses at different times. For this reason, as CRGR we have been carrying out intervention processes in communities in conditions of social, economic, environmental and political vulnerability in the 4 countries of the Central America Region. (Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua «said Magdalena Cortez.

This international seminar was aimed at people linked to NGDOs, universities, research centers and the general public, who are aware of climate change, as well as of each of the participating countries.