 I'm Mariana. I'm a research officer at the University of Aramachi University in Melbourne, Australia. And I'm going to present a little bit of this study that I've been working in the title, its house gardens in informal settlements, sustaining food security in Honiara. So just to give you a bit of context, this is part of climate resilient Honiara project that is being like a long term, is a result of a long term engagement that Aramachi has with the local stakeholders in Honiara, that is the capital city of the Solomon Islands. And we're going to I'm going to focus my discussion today in in this project that it's actually a very complex and large project that involves different components. But one important aspect of this research is that it's based in the engagement with vulnerable communities living in informal settlements in peri-urban areas of Honiara. And there were five vulnerable hotspots that have been selected as case studies. And today I will present some of the experiences working with food security and gender component and focusing on the Wing Valley and Jabros communities. Just a project overview, the gender has been like a key part of the climate resilient Honiara project, mainly because women are often more vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially because they have key roles of supporting food security. And in these particular communities, they it means that they are mainly the main they are mainly responsible to care for the house gardens to process and prepare food for the household. And from other researchers, and we we know now that in periods of crisis, women, for example, as COVID-19, women have their workload increased and have also a vital role on searching innovative ways to support food security in their communities. So that's why we're interested to capture women's stories and stories on on food security and to understand how women's experiences on gardening were connected to the sustainability of food security in these communities. So for that, we have conducted garden surveys, workshops, interviews and transect walks with these women and we captured the stories on videos with drones and maps. So in our first the first step was to characterize the house gardens that are locally known as soup gardens, mainly because everything most of the things planted are used to make soup. And that's how they call it. So we surveyed 86 gardens in these two communities. And as you can see on in those maps, the green shapes are where are the the gardens where the gardens are located. But you can also see the red colors that indicate areas where slope is higher than 45 degrees and also the blue colors that indicate areas that are prone to floods. So just to highlight some of the threats that the natural threats for the maintenance of these gardens. So a lot of challenges to overcome here. So from our survey, we found out that we find that 57 different types of plants were planted in these gardens and 40 percent of that were trees, fruit trees, mainly, and there were an average of three plants per garden. And the most frequent plant was banana trees. And they were present in more than 35 percent of the gardens there. These are just like the most frequent ones. But, yeah, at the same time, we also evaluate the general health condition of those plants. And we find out that 40 percent of these plants present a kind of sort of damage being biological attack by pests or diseases, the most observant. OK, so. Having this in mind, the why we actually wanted to capture or the views and the experiences of women. And in these workshops, we identify some challenges about the house gardens. And so the first one that we we actually ask how climate change had if climate change was perceived threat to the gardens and most of them agree that they could feel it. And and mainly by they pointed out that the uncertainty of the weather had impact on how they they they were planting, but also how high volumes of rain were a great concern, mainly in these areas, because they are very steep that could result in soil erosion and increase risks of landslides in the area. And also, pests were perceived as a climate related issue and they mention a lot like how beetles and snails were more frequent when it was too wet. But another interesting thing was that most of these women migrate from rural areas to to this peri urban regions. And they they noticed that the traditional garden methods that they were using sometimes were not very suitable and they need to adapt to urban areas. And mainly like understanding, like, for example, soil fertility, that it's it's different and like how they were interested in how to overcome these challenges. And of course, COVID-19 was in the least and has exacerbated that food security issues in the community and has forced these women to work more in their sub-sup gardens. And they realized that this was was not enough. And most of these women had to find all the areas outside their communities to plant. And that's what they call the bush gardens. And we have awoke with some of these women. Some of these women and we we noticed how these bush gardens have brought different issues. Mainly mobility, land disputes, because well, it's informal settlements in the fringe of the city. And also concerns for women's safety, because they they had to walk, for example, more than 30 minutes by themselves. And and also these pictures illustrates how steep it is for them to be walking like long distances to go and take care of these gardens. So as a general key learnings from from this project, the we we take took these lessons that this learning less or more guidance are very important, not just for the resilience of these communities, but for the survival and mailing in in this this periods of crisis. The house gardens are not enough. So they had to find resources outside the community and finding different alternatives for maintaining and sustaining the food security. Another point that that was interesting, that the adaptation of this traditional gardening methods to urbanizing environment and climate change scenarios needs support. And something that they mentioned on the workshops is that they would like to understand more about which species to plant, species that will be more sustainable and would in a climate change scenario would survive it better and to give like better quality of crops and harvesting. And they show how important was the social organization between women sustaining these gardening gardening activities and the importance of local organizations that also support these needs and help them. And there were a lot of talks about women walking together to their gardens to support each other and exchange of plants or exchange of knowledge that is very important for for them to adapt to these different environment. And also important, we know that these are private areas, so but they also play an important role in the in the whole city. And I think I believe that they need to be integrated in the urban planning discussion, mainly in these vulnerable areas where urban gardens are so vital for these communities. So next steps for this is to understand better the climate change impacts on food security and comparing different years and how how these urban gardens have evolved a long time from and in future scenarios for climate change. Thank you very much.