Community Adaptations Plans (CAPs)
![Community Garden: Often planted on public or formerly abandoned land, community gardens are run by volunteers who cultivate vegetables or flowers and closer relationships to nature and one another. Generally open to all participants, they are sometimes fenced, locked or threatened by development. May offer hands-on learning and a habitat for birds and insects. Community Garden](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_77.gif)
![Eco-Agriculture/Permaculture: Encompasses small-scale city farm to full-size rural farms that are organic, biodynamic or using other sustainable methods. May indicate organizations linking urban communities and nearby farmers though community-supported agriculture (known as CSAs or box schemes), 4H demonstration farms, agriculture schools or food security resources and networks. Eco-Agriculture/Permaculture](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_2.gif)
![Eco-Design/Planning Feature: Exciting design features including public transport stations, plazas, integrated native plantings and street furniture such as kiosks, benches, fountains, or lighting that use materials and energy efficiently, contributing to the streetscape. May be an area planned for ecological soundness or use sustainable infrastructure guidelines. Eco-Design/Planning Feature](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_68.gif)
![Food Gathering Site: Pick and gather edibles, glean fallen or unwanted fruits, go fishing, or harvest wildcrafted herbs and foods. Consider ecological concerns, delicate habitats, and waste issues when using this icon. Food Gathering Site](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_81.gif)
![Eco Landscaping: Place where the land is beautified in an ecologically sustainable manner. Eco Landscaping](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_71.gif)
![Social Enterprise: A property, café, shop, residential complex, service or other business that is cooperatively managed and/or benefits society. Social Enterprise](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_11.gif)
![Recycling: Drop-off site for materials that can be reprocessed or refilled. Includes businesses that buy, work with or sell products made from recycled materials, information resources, and good examples of recycled materials in use. Recycling](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_14.gif)
Overview
Locations: Amaoti, Ntuzuma, Ntshongweni
Indigent communities that rely on ecosystem goods and services are most vulnerable to changing weather patterns as a consequence of climate change. Social cohesion is critical in order for communities to be able to respond to the impacts of climate change in a coherent and integrated manner. There is a need for local champions to drive specific solutions to the challenges being faced.
The CAP project had three sub-projects:
1) A social vulnerability and adaptation planning study, conducted in the above three areas, aimed at understanding how climate change impacts exacerbate daily challenges and risks faced by vulnerable communities.
2) An assessment of climate change impacts upon maize, including an investigation into the productivity of alternativestaple crops under climate change conditions, and their social acceptability.
3) Research into water harvesting options and the undertaking of a local level project focusing on water harvesting, water-wise landscaping and the improvement of a community garden were initiated at a school in Luganda.
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