Guatemala country actions for the project Accelerating the Global Transition to Sustainable Agriculture

The analysis area was in Chimaltenango, Sololá, and Quiché, in the municipalities of Zaragoza, San Andrés Iztapa Chimaltenango and San Juan Comalapa. The territory comprises 47.45 square kilometers within three micro watersheds Balanyá, Pixcayá-Pampumay and Quiejel. A stratified random sample was employed to select farms for the study, specifically targeting those implementing Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices. The selection process utilized the R package rsamplac {sampler} (Lohr, 1991, equation 2.17). The methodology consists of species collection from the Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Hymenoptera orders conducted, especially if they were observed using the vegetation present in the plot as a habitat or food resource. Taxonomic information about insect specimens and their interactions with plants was analysed. An abundance matrix per species per farm was created, which was used to calculate diversity metrics (richness "S," estimated richness "Chao1," total abundance "N," Shannon diversity "H'," and Pielou evenness "J”). Brief results - 254 specimens from the orders Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Hymenoptera. Preliminary identification identified 79 morphospecies from 25 different taxonomic families. Additionally, 232 records of plant-insect interactions were obtained, involving at least 59 different plant species (review the draft).