The aim of this report is to provide a detailed review of documented social learning processes for climate change and natural resource management as described in peer-reviewed literature. Particular focus is on identifying (1) lessons and principles, (2) tools and approaches, (3) evaluation of so...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Social learning in practice: A review of lessons, impacts and tools for climate change]
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Social learning in practice: A review of lessons, impacts and tools for climate change
Climate Airwaves is a project for building capacity among community radio broadcasters to investigate the local impact of climate change. The vision behind the project was to build the confidence of broadcasters to do stories by developing their skills in doing action research with communities on...
Initiated in 2007, the Maarifa Centres (Maarifa is the Swahili word for knowledge) are a project that aims through multimedia tools, to facilitate the exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge among communities to enhance learning for improved socio-economic empowerment. The project involves ...
Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) products represent a promising and exciting innovation that could allow the benefits of insurance to protect the climate-related risks that vulnerable rural smallholder farmers and livestock keepers face. An interactive "game" workshop to explain index based...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Carlile, Liz
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Garside, Ben
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Patterson, Zachary
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Naess, Lars Otto
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[Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)]
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Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)
Communicating Carbon is a workshop approach which brought together carbon project practitioners who are already working closely with farmers to discuss how to better communicate the concept, risks, and benefits of carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders – based around the principle of Free, Prio...
“Climate Analogues: Finding Tomorrow’s Agriculture Today” is an effort by CCAFS to make climate change adaptation a more tangible endeavour by encouraging the exchange of knowledge between communities. The idea is that the “analogues tool” helps to identify geographic areas where growing conditio...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Harvey, Blane
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Epp, Marissa van
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Social learning and sustainable development]
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Social learning and sustainable development
Kabarole Research Centre (KRC, an NGO) started a radio food security awareness raising campaign for farmer groups in Western Uganda. More than 144 radio drama series on the topic of food security were performed and aired on radio as an entertaining means of discussing the topic. Listener demand ...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Creative communications campaign fostering social learning loops]
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Creative communications campaign fostering social learning loops
Moroccan farmers are becoming more involved in managing supply chains, notably through local and regional cooperatives, particularly for milk. However, despite the state’s attempts to transfer responsibilities to associations of water users, it retains control of large-scale irrigation schemes. I...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco]
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Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco
The Future Scenarios initiative works in a participatory and interactive way with technical advisors and other key stakeholders in East and West Africa to build some up pictures of different worlds, or narratives, that identify the uncertainties that policy-makers may be faced with at the regiona...