Climate change is an urgent challenge for small-scale farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean, who produce up to 60 per cent of food in some parts of the region. Many of these farmers live in poverty and have little access to financing and other services. In Colombia, the region of Ubaté is known as the country’s dairy capital because it produces around 25 per cent of the capital city Bogotá’s basic goods. But in the last decade Ubaté has been hit hard by cycles of intense rain and drought associated with phenomena like La Niña and El Niño. Adapting farming practices to new climatic conditions has emerged as an urgent priority.
