Climate change impacts threaten agriculture and food security in Sri Lanka. With impacts of floods and droughts experienced the last decade, many agriculture communities are highly vulnerable and unable to carry out their livelihoods.

SLYCAN Trust’s project on economic diversification as an adaptation practice, focuses on  crop diversification as a solution to address climate impacts on the agriculture sector in the Trincomalee district.

The project focused on capacity building of farmer communities, especially on women farmers and youth, to adapt to climate change impacts by introducing crop-diversification, supporting organic agriculture practices, as well as capacity building for implementing structured home gardening which would increase the income of farmer families impacted by climate change.

Project duration: September 2016 – July 2017

Project status: Completed

Team members involved:

• Vositha Wijenayake
• Kavindu Ediriweera
• Bhagya Wickramasinghe
• Sarath Ekanayake
• Charuka Udayanga