Rising Tides and Shrimp from the Banks of the Amazon Forest

Rosario’s home on a tributary of the Amazon River.

A team of scientists from the Earth Institute, including IRI’s Katia Fernandez, have come to the Amazon delta to find out how communities are adapting. The researchers want to understand how the climate is changing, and how they can help with better forecasting and strategies for adaptation as part of a project titled, “Socio-Cultural Adaptations of Caboclos in the Amazon Estuary of Brazil to Extreme Tidal Events.” Partners in this work include scientists and researchers from IRI, the International Development Research Centre, the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability, the Federal University of Pará, the State University of Amapá and the National Institute for Space Research of Brazil, and Waterloo University in Canada.

Read the story of how one farmer, Rosario, has shifted her agriculture along with a shifting climate, and learn more about Katia’s work in an Amazon ecosystem in this State of the Planet blog post here.