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Strengthening Farmer Adaptive Capacity Through Farms of the Future Approach in Nyando, Western Kenya

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Title Strengthening Farmer Adaptive Capacity Through Farms of the Future Approach in Nyando, Western Kenya
 
Creator Kimeli, Philip
Nyasimi, Mary
Radeny, Maren A.O.
 
Subject food security
climate change
agriculture
adaptation
 
Description Rapidly changing climatic conditions in East Africa are increasing sources of vulnerability for rural agricultural communities. Current agricultural practices and institutional coping mechanisms are unable to cope with these changes, and calls for adaptation in agricultural systems. The CGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has developed the Climate Analogue tool that connects sites with statistically similar (‘analogous’) climatic conditions, across space and time. The tool can and has been used to connect farmers and agricultural stakeholders to their plausible future climates through the Farms of the Future (FotF) approach—where farmers learn about potential adaptation strategies and institutional innovations through farmer–to–farmer exchanges between analogue sites. The FotF approach can be used together with ongoing support for participatory action research to build reflective capacity and awareness of challenges farmers likely to face and to identify and develop possible solutions among farmers and other agricultural stakeholders. This paper documents the learning experiences of farmers from Nyando, in Western Kenya during through participation in the climate learning journey across other counties in Kenya. The paper also shows how these farmers are planning to use their learning experiences to design local adaptation plans of actions.
 
Date 2017
2017-04-27T11:42:46Z
2017-04-27T11:42:46Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Kimeli P, Nyasimi M, Radeny M. 2017. Strengthening Farmer Adaptive Capacity Through Farms of the Future Approach in Nyando, Western Kenya. In: Filho WL et al (eds.). 2017. Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: Fostering Resilience and Capacity to Adapt. Part II. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. pp 629-645.
9783319495194
9783319495200
1610-2010
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80806
EA_CSV
EA_PAR_CSA_Portfoilios
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49520-0_39
 
Language en
 
Relation Climate Change Management
 
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Format 629-645
 
Publisher Springer International Publishing