To enhance equitable access and use of climate services among vulnerable farming populations, this project will take a mixed methods case study approach to examining participation in local technical…

To enhance equitable access and use of climate services among vulnerable farming populations, this project will take a mixed methods case study approach to examining participation in local technical agroclimatic committees (LTACS) and use of recommendations contained within agro-climatic bulletins (ACBS) among mayan smallholders in guatemala and mexico to: 1) identify the unique climate information requirements/preferences of women and iplcs, and examine the gendered factors affecting access to CIS; 2) evaluate how the composition of LTACS leads to access and use of ACBS among vulnerable populations; 2) produce evidence that uptake of climate-resilient strategies (i.e., ACB adoption) by vulnerable populations, such as women and indigenous farmers, leads to increased climate risk management/adaptive capacity and food system resilience at the farm-level (comparing ACB adopters to non-adopters), as well as; 4) examine the impact of these strategies on women?S empowerment and other equity dimensions using a reach-benefit-empower-transform (RBET) framework.