Through various trainings, exercises and case studies, local stakeholders such as technicians, firefighters, secretaries of agriculture and planning were guided in developing skills for the management and use of information built through Geographic Information Systems - GIS. For this purpose, we illustrated and practiced with free access and digital tools such as Q-Gis, to strengthen the analysis of information and cartographic graphic outputs for processes such as land use, water network, planning, zoning and municipal ordinance. In addition, brochures were prepared with the information obtained at the technical-cartographic level to facilitate the information to the stakeholders.

INIFAP technicians and other organizations have accompanied Apaseo el Grande producers for many years, training them and encouraging them to seek their own solutions to the particular problems of their plots.

Over time, the growers learned that their plots have particular needs depending on their location, soil type, climate conditions, among other things, and that the "recipes" they sometimes find in books do not always work the same for everyone. This motivated them to continue experimenting with different practices within the five axes of sustainability they had learned, and to write down the combinations that gave them better production yields at lower cost. This has been at the heart of the AESAC experience.

They also learned to share their experiences and give recommendations to other producers who were resistant to change, and were able to organize training workshops even in other communities.

En la Reserva Nacional Matsés, la vigilancia y control se orientan a: a) la reducción de prácticas no sostenibles de aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales, y b) la reducción de ingresos a zonas y sectores no permitidos según la zonificación del área protegida. Para generar respuestas más rápidas y eficientes ante las amenazas se vienen utilizando el aplicativo SMART que permite hacer más eficiente la colecta y sistematización de datos recogidos durante las actividades de vigilancia y control.

Giant kelp is drastically understudied given the benefits it can deliver. The promise of cultivated kelp and its ecosystem services need to be quantified and unlocked to speed up the expansion of kelp cultivation at scale. This will help mitigate climate change and create sustainable products which will displace the current more environmentally damaging products.

The Kelp Forest Foundation was set up to help address the gap in science and knowledge around giant kelp forests’ ecosystem services – and to ensure this new knowledge is publicly available to companies, governments, regulators, not-for-profits, academics, and other stakeholders in order to accelerate the awareness and application of cultivated kelp forests as a powerful nature-based solution.

Hortimare, a Dutch-based company, is one of the few companies in the world specialising in the genetics, breeding and propagating of seaweed. Hortimare works with Kelp Blue to create starting material, increase yield and research on best growing techiniques of the Macrocystis pyrifera specie.

The first step towards the development of a target group specific communication and capacity building strategy was a KAP analysis (knowledge, attitude, practices), which established a baseline, in terms of understanding the private sector´s knowledge about climate change, as well as its attitude towards the topic and the practices already in place. The analysis also included a capacity needs assessment, which served as input for ADAPTUR´s capacity building and training program. The findings were also used to train counterparts, consultants, and project members in better understanding the private sector and to improve their communication skills by using the right words, concepts and messages.

The training program comprised several topics about climate change vulnerability, climate-proof investment, cost-benefit analysis, national/subnational policies related to climate change, EbA solutions, public-private cooperation, financial mechanism, etc.

At the same time, a press campaign was launched in cooperation with local media and journalists. The ADAPTUR website was introduced with regular newsletters, best-practices, case studies and messages from industry leaders. It also contained a resources section with studies, tools and information material.

In developing countries such as Mexico, there are areas of opportunity for citizen science to play an important role in resource management. In small-scale fisheries, product landing sites are often widely distributed and with a high number of operators. In these situations, participatory methods of digitized data collection can be very useful. Thus, they play an important role in obtaining fishery-generated information and facilitate the information collection process.

To this end, in 2020 COBI created the digital platform PescaData. A mobile application where the productive sector can register their fishing data using digital logs, encouraging fisheries to have a systematic record of their catches and contribute to the knowledge of the species. Also, PescaData facilitates the connection with fishing communities from different geographic locations, through the sale of products and sharing solutions related to fishing. Finally, PescaData is a free application, where the information recorded is available only to the user, promoting digital sovereignty.

An institutional support is required for the beneficiaries to promote the products they make through this solution, in local, regional and national markets. Since a single farmer cannot meet the quantity demand of the market and the distributors look for bulk quantity, a functioning co-operative has to be formed at the local level. This cooperation serves the purpose of collecting the products, negotiating the price with the distributor, supervising the manufacturing and distributing the profits. 

Various alliances had to be build to ensure the success of the programme. Collaboration was necessarry between the following stakeholders: 

• Local and provincial government and administrative authorities
• Social groups like youth clubs, women groups, agriculture committees
• Forest and land protection committes 
• Local, regional and national private sector businesses 
• Various experts, researchers and scholars in this sector

The communities living in thes project landscapes are directly involved in all phases of this project: household selection, area(s) selection, plantation and supervision of all activities. The project promotes active participation and involvement in decision-making processes.