Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 12/2009

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

November 2009

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how they are adapting to it.