Poor rural households in marginal territories that have a low productive potential and/or that are far from markets and infrastructure are highly vulnerable to climate-change impacts and could easily fall into poverty-environment traps 9. This means that communities that are already struggling economically and geographically isolated are at greater risk of experiencing the negative impacts of climate change on their agricultural livelihoods.
Poor rural households in marginal territories that have a low productive potential and/or that are far from markets and infrastructure are highly vulnerable to climate-change impacts and could easily fall into poverty-environment traps 9. This means that communities that are already struggling economically and geographically isolated are at greater risk of experiencing the negative impacts of climate change on their agricultural livelihoods.
['Rural populations', 'Persons living in poverty']