PRELIMINARY FOOD SECURITY DIAGNOSIS OF CLIMATE IMPACTS IN TWO JARI VALLEY COMMUNITIES

Abstract

The objective of this study is to understand how two riverine communities of the Jari Valley have adapted to climate change, and to evaluate the impacts of these adaptations on food security of these populations. First, interviews were conducted in both communities, in which qualitative and quantitative data were collected. Subsequently, these data were analyzed from descriptive statistics, correlating the local reality with other communities in the Amazon. It resulted in 33 people interviewed, in which 81.8% lived in the community for more than ten years, 93.9% perform the practice of extractivism and 67.7% reported that the products from extractivism are used for both subsistence and trade. Of those who found to be extractive, 57.58% are having greater difficulty in obtaining extractive products in the Amazon summer of 2023. Regarding horticulture, 21.2% claimed to produce. In addition to 52.2% of these producers prove that there has been a change in production in recent years. In addition, 78.8% reported that they depend on businesses far from the communities to buy food. Therefore, one of the biggest consequences of climate change is the scarcity of resources, which make them have to resort to businesses geographically distant from their communities.