ANALYSIS OF VULNERABILITY, RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION OF URUGUAY’S PRODUCTIVE SECTORS

CONTEXT

The agricultural sectors, particularly livestock, play an important role in the Uruguayan economy, representing 7 percent of GDP and 70 percent of the country’s total exports.
Over the past decade, the agricultural sectors have experienced a period of rapid growth, intensification, and modernization. However, agricultural production remains highly exposed to climate change and climate variability, and floods and droughts during the same period become more intense.
To address these challenges, Uruguay is undertaking a series of adaptation interventions, supported by a progressive policy framework, and with the support of the NAP-Ag Program, will increasingly integrate adaptation strategies into its national planning and budgeting processes and subnational.

OBJECTIVES

Build a system for assessing the vulnerability (exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation capacity) and the climate resilience of the different agroecosystems.
Incorporate different economic approaches (such as cost-benefit analysis) in the design and evaluation of public policies, strategies, or other types of actions on climate variability and change and its effects on the agroecosystems.

FINANCE

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

SARAS’ ROLE

Product development, research, coordination and administration

PRODUCTS

SARAS Institute as part of the conceptualization of the National Plan for Adaptation to Variability and Climate Change for the Agricultural Sector (PNA-Agro and Plan of Action 2025), developed a matrix of 32 indicators as a policy monitoring mechanism.
The identification of these indicators was carried out through the search for synergies with the PNA-Agro and other existing indicators in the NDC and the SDGs, in order to track the progress in the implementation of the four adaptation dimensions identified in the plan, name, Production system (9 indicators), Ecosystems and natural resources (9 indicators), Livelihoods (9 indicators), Institutional capacities (5 indicators).
This collaboration was carried out from the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS) in charge of academics; Nestor Mazzeo, Micaela Trimble, Rafael Terra, Mercedes Berterreche, and Cristina Zurbriggen
In turn, he made the Cost-benefit Analysis Guide. Application for adaptation measures to climate change in the agricultural sector in Uruguay. Whose authors are Miguel Carriquiry; Matías Piaggio, Guillermo Sena, (FAO, Montevideo 2019)
This publication was prepared within the framework of the project to prepare the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability for the Agricultural Sector in Uruguay (PNA-Agro), implemented by the Unit for Sustainability and Climate Change of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fishing (MGAP-OPYPA).