Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0

The Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0 describes a community-based tool for identifying climate risks to food systems. It uses a five-ring conceptual framework (utilization, access, availability, supporting resources, and supporting organizations) to analyze resilience. The tool guides users through a process of contextual analysis, resilience questioning, and the selection of SMART indicators to monitor food security in the face of climate variability.

• The CRiSTAL Food Security tool is a specialized version of the original CRiSTAL tool, which was developed by four international NGOs to help project planners systematically integrate climate change adaptation and risk reduction into ecosystem management and sustainable livelihood projects.
• The tool employs a holistic 'food system' approach to food security, analyzing it through five concentric rings: food utilization and consumption, food access, food availability, supporting resources and services, and supporting organizations and policies.
• Climate risk is defined as the interaction between climate threats (such as storms, floods, and droughts), exposure (presence of people and resources in prone regions), and vulnerability, which is further divided into sensitivity and adaptive capacity.
• The methodology encourages the use of participatory rural appraisal tools to gather community data, specifically mentioning livelihood strategies, threat and resource mapping, and vulnerability matrices.
• The tool's analytical process involves several steps: preparation, establishing community and climate context, analyzing the food system, conducting a resilience analysis, selecting SMART indicators, and generating reports.
• The resilience analysis for supporting resources and services requires a pre-selection of three priority resources based on their climate sensitivity or importance in responding to negative impacts to avoid excessive complexity.
• The tool is implemented via a Microsoft Excel application that automatically links data across sheets and generates five summary reports: general, food systems, climate impacts, resilience analysis, and resilience indicators.
• To ensure practical monitoring, the manual suggests that the final set of selected resilience indicators should not exceed 20 in total.

APA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (2014). Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/cristal_food_security_manual_sp.pdf

Chicago

International Institute for Sustainable Development. Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0. 2014. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/cristal_food_security_manual_sp.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopment2014manual, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2014}, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/cristal_food_security_manual_sp.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }