Dear all,
Please see below information about our panel at the forthcoming RAI Conference 'Anthropology, weather and climate change', 27-29 May 2016. In order to submit a paper, please follow the link http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3811. The submission deadline is 8 January.
Panel 43: 'Community-led conservation of traditional crops and knowledge co-production in response to a changing climate: case studies from South Asia'
Short abstract
The panel aims to explore case studies from South Asia addressing issues of mobilisation of alliances, agroecological responses to environmental crisis, global/local participation and collaborations, movements promoting sustainable food systems, anticipatory and reactive measures.
Long abstract
Genetic diversity is a key element in farmers’ livelihood strategies in areas under high ecological and economic stresses. However, the pressures for yield-intensification, combined with unpredictable climate, mark a crisis of eroding of agricultural biodiversity. Farmers in many parts of South Asia are turning to locally-adapted landraces and organic farming practices as one strategy to achieve food and seed sovereignty and create agrarian alternatives in times of economic and environmental crisis. Indigenous agricultural biodiversity is receiving growing attention for its great potential to reduce people’s vulnerability to a range of climate change impacts and provide significant co-benefits to those most vulnerable to climate change. Civil society movements, activists, local community leaders, academic and non-academic researchers and farming communities are becoming increasingly engaged with transformative paradigms of agroecology, sustainable farming and other concepts and approaches to shape local, regional and national climate change adaptation policies and practices. These include, among others, creating networks of knowledge and technology transfer as a means for building up resilience with regards to changing weather patterns and creating collaborations between communities as they become more and more affected by climate change and its uncertainties. The transmission of cross-generational indigenous knowledge, in particular, helps forge lasting solutions to tackling climate change and mitigating its impact while also achieving sustainable livelihoods.
This panel aims to obtain a broad representation of case studies/experiences from South Asia to directly address issues of mobilisation of alliances with regards to agroecological responses to environmental crisis and climate change, global/local participation and collaborations, movements/counter-movements promoting sustainable food systems, anticipatory and reactive measures, community-based approaches to mitigating the impact of climate change and achieving sustainable livelihoods etc. Potential contributors will investigate issues and/or contestations related to agricultural biodiversity, conservation and/or revival of traditional crop varieties in topics pertaining but not restricted to:
- climate and environment;
- agri-food systems;
- governance of local/common property resources and benefit sharing;
- competition for resources in conditions of increased temperatures, decreasing rainfall, soil erosion, deforestation, water and food scarcity etc. brought about by climate change;
- collaborations between social movements, activists, youth groups, NGOs, academics and farmers’ communities which promote food security and sustainable livelihoods;
- technology transfer and knowledge co-production (including social media and awareness campaigns) etc.
Panel conveners:
Tsvetilena Bandakova (University of Edinburgh)
Iliyana Angelova (University of Oxford)
Best wishes,
Iliyana
Iliyana Angelova
DPhil Anthropology (Oxon)
MSc Social Anthropology (Oxon)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Oxford
Wolfson College
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