Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Mountain EbA Project, Peru

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. This report presents the findings from a literature review and interviews with a wide variety of stakeholders conducted by IUCN at the project site in the Nor Yauyos Cochas Landscape Reserve in Peru, where EbA measures such as water channel and reservoir restoration, grassland management and vicuña management were implemented. 

The report concludes that project activities contributed positively to adaptive capacity and resilience whilst laying the foundations for reducing vulnerability. While community members targeted by the project, notably mountain communities and livestock farmers, experienced more improvements than other groups, overall the benefits were widespread and led to no apparent trade-offs in terms of who benefitted.