ADAPTIVE CAPACITY:
The ability of a person or group of persons to adapt to an oncoming threat.
This is a fresh new look on climate change and how it will affect Rhode Island’s food industry.
The episodes present a new way of thinking and promotes a different outlook on the subject. To adapt for survival changes in technology, farming and fishing practices must change. Some of these practices are already in place. The episodes look at the local food industries using innovative practices in the agricultural and fishing industry in the threat of climate change. This is about a positive approach and explains the meaning of adaptive capacity through insights into the process of providing fresh local food into the future.