Date: 27.11.2014, 17:00 – 18:30
Where: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, HS I
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, UNU-EHS
Changing environmental conditions in Kenya’s semi-arid areas such as land degradation, socio-economic factors such as poverty, inadequate labour, limited financial capital, high input prices and limited access to markets as well as political factors such as a lack of voice, often constrain the capacity of farmers to maintain or improve agricultural value chains and agricultural land management. Further, droughts, floods, market failures or widespread infestations can intensify this rather constraining environment, further eroding the actors’ adaptive capacities. Many of these challenges are beyond the resources and capabilities of an individual farmer to address. Farmers thus self-organise themselves in groups in order to increase their capacities and be in a better position to address these challenges. Self-organisation is based on the assumption that the degree to which farmers are connected, cooperate and have control over their various resources determines the degree to which they can reduce their vulnerability and build their resilience to dynamic social-ecological conditions. Preliminary analyses of data collected from agro-pastoral areas show how farmers have improved their adaptive capacities, the challenges they face and the potentials for building resilience.
More information http://www.ehs.unu.edu/
Organised by: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)
Source: Information by ARTS/University of Bonn from 26.11.2014
Date: 27.11.2014, 17:00 – 18:30
Where: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, HS I
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, UNU-EHS
Changing environmental conditions in Kenya’s semi-arid areas such as land degradation, socio-economic factors such as poverty, inadequate labour, limited financial capital, high input prices and limited access to markets as well as political factors such as a lack of voice, often constrain the capacity of farmers to maintain or improve agricultural value chains and agricultural land management. Further, droughts, floods, market failures or widespread infestations can intensify this rather constraining environment, further eroding the actors’ adaptive capacities. Many of these challenges are beyond the resources and capabilities of an individual farmer to address. Farmers thus self-organise themselves in groups in order to increase their capacities and be in a better position to address these challenges. Self-organisation is based on the assumption that the degree to which farmers are connected, cooperate and have control over their various resources determines the degree to which they can reduce their vulnerability and build their resilience to dynamic social-ecological conditions. Preliminary analyses of data collected from agro-pastoral areas show how farmers have improved their adaptive capacities, the challenges they face and the potentials for building resilience.
More information http://www.ehs.unu.edu/
Organised by: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)
Source: Information by ARTS/University of Bonn from 26.11.2014