Smallholder Farmer Strategies to cope with Climate Change, Ethiopia and Kenya
Abstract
The idea of the project is to provide field-to-market strategies for production intensification of selected key crops that are regionally adapted to help sub-Saharan regions cope with Climate Change. The research takes place in Bahir Dar Region in Ethiopia and Nakuru Lake Region in Kenya. With this project we try to encourage actors with rural livelihoods to cope with Climate Change through production intensification through a cyclical process of collaborative learning across a systemic innovation value chain. Based on a systemic approach to better understand the overall living conditions of smallholder farmers we study exemplarily the performance of two key crops under latest and future climatic constraints. We follow these crops via analyzing and optimizing harvesting, storing, use in the household, towards markets and consumer use. All research steps are shared with case study farmers. We establish what we call a collaborative learning community between farmers, researchers and advisors to make the best use of different knowledge and experiences along the whole value chain of our key crops. Besides our key farmers we extent our dialogue with local farmers and other actors participating in the value chain, to secure further knowledge transfer.
tropical agriculture climate change organic farming transdisciplinarity
Publikationen
Project staff
Bernhard Freyer
Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Ing. Bernhard Freyer
bernhard.freyer@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
15.11.2012 - 31.07.2017
BOKU partners
External partners
University of Hohenheim
Prof. Folkard Asch
sub-coordinator