Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia
The agro-ecological knowledge held by Ovambo farmers in North Central Namibia has, for centuries, given them resilience to high levels of climate variability and associated impacts. New research, conducted in North Central Namibia, suggests that knowledge co-production between farmers and agricultur...
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| description | The agro-ecological knowledge held by Ovambo farmers in North Central Namibia has, for centuries, given them resilience to high levels of climate variability and associated impacts. New research, conducted in North Central Namibia, suggests that knowledge co-production between farmers and agricultural extension workers may, in addition, strengthen adaptive capacity to future climate change. However, this useful kind of knowledge co-production is far from automatic, and indeed the conditions which make it more likely to happen are not well understood. This paper explores agro-ecological knowledge in North Central Namibia as adaptive capacity, and suggests avenues for better conceptualising and understanding the conditions for adaptive capacity-enhancing knowledge co-production. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:dcbaea88-2430-4520-9d09-68a52d3400f02022-03-27T09:19:41ZKnowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central NamibiaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:dcbaea88-2430-4520-9d09-68a52d3400f0Environmental changeEnvironmentEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetElsevier2011Newsham, AThomas, DThe agro-ecological knowledge held by Ovambo farmers in North Central Namibia has, for centuries, given them resilience to high levels of climate variability and associated impacts. New research, conducted in North Central Namibia, suggests that knowledge co-production between farmers and agricultural extension workers may, in addition, strengthen adaptive capacity to future climate change. However, this useful kind of knowledge co-production is far from automatic, and indeed the conditions which make it more likely to happen are not well understood. This paper explores agro-ecological knowledge in North Central Namibia as adaptive capacity, and suggests avenues for better conceptualising and understanding the conditions for adaptive capacity-enhancing knowledge co-production. |
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| title | Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia |
| title_full | Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia |
| title_fullStr | Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia |
| title_short | Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia |
| title_sort | knowing farming and climate change adaptation in north central namibia |
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