📝 Key Findings

The Circle of the Word reveals that irregular rainfall and drought are the dominant climate drivers in community perception, concentrating the most intense correlations with crop loss (10 and 5 mentions respectively) and water scarcity (8 and 6 mentions), which evidences a direct causal chain between water variability and food insecurity. The Sankey diagram confirms this concentration: of the 51 total connections, the thickest flow links irregular rainfall to crop loss (10 mentions), while other climate changes — hail, frost, hurricanes, storms — show dispersed, low-frequency connections, suggesting the community perceives them as secondary or sporadic threats. In the actor network, youth emerges as the highest-weight node (35), followed by women (26) and elders (25), forming an intergenerational triangle that articulates the majority of proposed actions; in contrast, institutional actors such as community radio stations (3) and universities (3) appear peripheral, signaling an articulation gap between local knowledge and formal expertise. The proposed actions are predominantly oriented toward food sovereignty strategies — agroecology, shagra gardens, nurseries, youth seedbeds — rather than infrastructure or risk management, reflecting a community logic centered on productive autonomy as an adaptive response to climate change.