1. WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM LOCAL DWELERS IN ADAPTING TO THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE? Ana KAROL 1,2 Benno POKORNY 3 1 3 Chair of Silviculture, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany. 2 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) - Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Pequeña Agricultura Familiar, Región Cuyo (IPAF), Argentina REFLECTING BIODIVERSITY – HOLISTIC APPROACHES AND REGIONAL ADAPTATION 12-15 September 2014, Bonn Germany

2. The changing climate 2 http://www.unitar.org/ny/node/162 http://www.earthtimes.org/climate/natural-disasters-linked-climate-change-un- climate-chief/861/ http://www.theguardian.com/global- development/2013/mar/06/insurance-disaster- resilience-climate-change Photograph: Jaspreet Kindra/IRINPhotograph: Collin Reid/AP theguardian.comtheguardian.com, Thursday 25 October 2012 09.13 BST

3. The rural poor 3 FUNDAPAZ

4. Extreme in the tropics and subtropics 4 Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ

5. Ongoing deforestation http://www.constantinereport.com/the-propaganda-system-that-has-helped-create-a-permanent-overclass-is-over-a-century-in-the-making/ 5

6. What has been done so far? http://phys.org/news/2011-05-clouds-effect-sunlight-energy-earth.html 6 FUNDAPAZ Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IÖR)

7. Expert suggestions 7 Adelheid Kückelhaus / MISEREOR

8. Only moderate success 8 Adelheid Kückelhaus / MISEREOR

9. Can we learn from local people how to adapt to the “climate challenge”? 9 Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ

10. Do local people have “adaptive capacity”? 10 Alejandro Haddad / FUNDAPAZ Adelheid Kückelhaus / MISEREOR

11. Local people HAVE adaptive capacities 11 Alejandro Haddad / FUNDAPAZ

12. Local people LACK adaptive capacities 12 Adelheid Kückelhaus / MISEREOR

13. The Chaco Region 13 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGranChacoApproximate.jpg South America Regatta-Pnuma

14. The history of the Argentinean Chaco Indigenous The immense and feared Chaco The clearance of the Chaco Transition Modern agriculture 1500181019201970 14 Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ marcos-altamirano.blogspot Nienke Busscher / FUNDAPAZ

15. 15 Indigenous The immense and feared Chaco The clearance of the Chaco Transition Modern agriculture 1500181019201970 Giordano, 2012 marcos-altamirano.blogspot

16. Indigenous The immense and feared Chaco The clearance of the Chaco Transition Modern agriculture 1500181019201970 16 L. Prang & Co., Boston (1893)Mauricio Rugendas (1845) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columbus_Taking_Possession.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mauricio_rugendas_-_el_malon.jpg

17. Indigenous The immense and feared Chaco The clearance of the Chaco Transition Modern agriculture 1500181019201970 17 Klappenbach & Giordano, 2010 marcos-altamirano.blogspot Giordano, 2012 Giordano, 2011

18. Indigenous The immense and feared Chaco The clearance of the Chaco Transition Modern agriculture 1500181019201970 18 Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ Marcos-altamirano.blogspotAdelheid Kückelhaus / MISEREOR

19. Indigenous The immense and feared Chaco The clearance of the Chaco Transition Modern agriculture 1500181019201970 19 Ana Alvarez / Asociana Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ Nienke Busscher / FUNDAPAZ Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ

20. So, what about climate? 20 Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ FUNDAPAZ

21. Social integration 21 Ana Karol / FUNDAPAZ

22. Social responsibility 22 Nienke Busscher / FUNDAPAZ

23. Secure access to resources 23 Daniela Karol

24. Take away If we want to effectively tackle CLIMATE CHANGE and BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION we need to also consider SOCIAL INJUSTICE and SOCIETAL SEGREGATION 24

25. Thanks a lot for your attention anukarol@gmail.com karol.ana@inta.gob.ar anukarol@gmail.com karol.ana@inta.gob.ar The authors are grateful to the Fundación para el Desarrollo en Justicia y Paz ( FUNDAPAZ) for permitting the analysis of primary historical data. This research was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation under the International Climate Protection Fellowship (2012 – 2013) We are grateful to FUNDAPAZ for permitting the analysis of primary historical data Research supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation under the International Climate Protection Fellowship (2012 – 2013)