Adapta Sertão

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The Adapta Sertão project 
 
Para informações em português: http://www.adaptasertao.net 
 
Climate change is a major challenge that all countries of the world have to face in the years to come. The poorest areas will suffer the most because they do not have adequate infrastructures and human and technical capabilities to cope with the events that may occur at a local and regional level. Semi-arid environments are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Their economies are often based on pasture and subsistence agriculture but they lack of one of the most essential resources: water. Current scenarios predict that climate variability is already occurring in semi-arid areas and will increase in the next years.

 

Adapta Sertão starts in 2006 as the Pintadas Solar pilot project in Pintadas,  a municipality of 11.000 inhabitants located in the interior of the state of Bahia, Northeast Brazil. The region is characterized by a semi-arid climate with very little precipitation and  hot temperatures  sandy soils and pro-longed periods of droughts, which are increasing due to climate change. The project has fostered an integrated development approach to community adaptation and mitigation to climate change by articulating the use of appropriated water efficient and clean energy technologies to improve agricultural practices, enhance food security and generate income. Links with the growing biofuel industry are also being made.

 

- VIDEO 1 - Click here to watch a short video about the Pintadas Solar project


- VIDEO 2 - Click here to watch the SEED Awards video (português; english)


Adapta Sertão is the result of a vibrant

collaborative partnership that gathered multilevel and multi-sectorial  partners that committed during the last  two years (2006-2008)  to work  together in order to   establish  the seeds for a model that can be replicated not only in Brazil but around the world. The project is also based on the integration of four strategic aspects: climate change, technology, process and partenrship (learn more about them).

 

The long-term objectives of the project are:

 

1. Promoting food security. The project aims to secure food to several families by disseminating small scale irrigation systems through micro-finance; and 

2. Income generation. The project aims also to increase the income of small farmers in the region by linking them to local and regional markets.

 

·         More about Pintadas, the first first municipality where the Adapta Sertão model has been tested

 

Aerial view of the city of Pintadas, Bahia state, Brazil.

  

 News


November 2009: The new english version of the Adapta Sertão website will be launched soon!


Adapta Sertão website has been launched in portuguese.


Pintadas factsheet

Click here to download a factsheet about Pintadas, its next phase and funding.


New video of Pintadas: the SEED Award ceremony!

Video about Pintadas Solar receiving the SEED Award prize. Click here to see it.


Presentations of the seminar in Salvador: 25th and 26th of November

 

25th of November: presentation

- Presentation Baratella/NETAFIM

- Presentation Barbosa/EMBRAPA

- Presentation Cesano/REDEH

- Presentation Heido/PULSAR

- Presentation Orlandi/HIDROGOOD

- Presentation Rodrigues/SECTI

- Presentation Wanderlay/CEARA'

 

- Relatorio, grupos de trabalho (working groups, results)

 

26th of November: presentation

- Presentation ASA

- Presentation GTZ

- Presentation UBA

- Presentation REDEH (1)

- Presentation REDEH (2)

 

Pictures/fotos 25-28th of November

- Pictures/fotos (25-28 Nov)
 

 

October the 21st, 2008: Invitation to the SEED Award ceremony, Salvador, Bahia.

On November the 26th, Pintadas Solar will receive the SEED Award.


- Invitation to the award ceremony (english)

- Invitation to the award ceremony (portuguese)


August the 21st, 2008: The Pintadas Solar Project wins the SEED Award.

 

The Pintadas Solar project was one of the five projects that was selected among nearly 400 applications to win the 2008 SEED Award Competition. The SEED Initiative is a global network for action on sustainable development partnerships, founded by IUCN, UNDP and UNEP, to deliver concrete progress towards the internationally-agreed, aspirational goals in the UN’s Millennium Declaration and the commitments made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. 

 - Press release of the SEED Award (english)

- Press release (english)

- Press release (portuguese)