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Through A Resilience Lens: Keeping Farmers On Their Lands And Reducing The Hunger Count
Presented at the International Food Security Dialogue 2014
“Enhancing Food Production, Gender Equity and
Nutritional Security in a Changing World.”
SUSAN WALSH, PhDUSC CANADA
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All effects we observe in the world of experience are interrelated in the most constant manner and merge into one another. From the first to the last, they form a series of undulations.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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RESILIENCE
Spreading the Risk
Accepting Redundancy
Buffering AgainstDisaster
Tight Feedback
Loops
Action for the Common Good
Building Trust+ Balanced
Power
Flexibility + Adaptive Manage- ment
Maintaining
Heterogeneity
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RESILIENCE PAR EXELLENCE
Multi-level ecosystem
management
Redundancy in soil
management
Dynamic knowledge
base
Biodiversity Conservation;
Crop Rotation
Modular GovernanceFood Prod.+
Temp Labour
Community-Based
Consensus Decisions
Reciprocity +Mantas
ConsensusRotational Leadership
Spreading the Risk
Accepting Redundancy
Maintaining
Hetero
geneity
Buffering AgainstDisaster
Tight Feedback
Loops
Action for the Common Good
Building Trust+ Balanced
Power
Being FlexibleAdaptive Manage-ment
EcologicalComplementarity
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Hunger Days – los Junios – Dropped from 5.6 to 1.3 wks.
2004-2005, quantitative and qualitative studies of livelihood security (Classen & Humphries 2006)
2012-2013, econometric analysis on economic impacts of PPB adoption and CIAL membership re: food security (Kindsvater, Humphries & Hailu)
OUTCOMES
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GENDER EQUITY AND WOMEN’S EQUALITY
Women CIAL members are more engaged in h/h decision-making, exercise more ‘liberty’ than non-members (Humphries, et al., 2012).
Husbands of long term women CIAL members are proud of their wives’ capacities (Humphries, et al., 2012).
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GRACIAS!
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