Community resilience: Strategies for empowerment in agrobiodiversity management and adaptation
Symposium Organiser(s):
Walter Simon de Boef, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, and Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Abishkar Subedi, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Shreeram P. Neopane, Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Pokhara, Nepal
The Convention on Biological Diversity and International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture both acknowledge the importance of in situ conservation. Community biodiversity management (CBM) is increasingly recognized as a process that contributes to in situ conservation through the management of landscape, species and genetic diversity. Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, conservation and development organizations elaborated the CBM approach. To achieve in situ conservation, CBM aims contributing to the empowerment of farming communities to manage their agrobiodiversity collectively and intentionally, thereby seeking sustainability in conservation. CBM offers several opportunities to enhance resilience in a context of ecological sustainability. Relevant attributes of resilience are strengthening capacities in learning and innovation; enhancing social capital; increasing the use of agrobiodiversity; enhancing access to knowledge, resources, information, markets and financial products. The symposium shares and discusses efforts used in a global project funded by the FAO Benefit-sharing Fund. The project uses a participatory learning and action approach to design strategic action plans supporting CBM and resilience in 12 countries. Academics from Brazil, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India and Nepal explore ways to improve the CBM approach enhancing community resilience in a context of agrobiodiversity management and adaptation.
Keywords: adaptive programme design and management, agrobiodiversity, community biodiversity management, in situ conservation, participatory learning and action research, resilience
Symposium Presentations:
Designing community-based conservation and adaptation strategies through participatory learning and action research
Sajal Sthapit, Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development, Pokhara, Nepal
Walter Simon de Boef, Federal University Santa Catarina, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil / Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Resilience, the empowerment of tribal peoples’ and access to markets, in the context of community biodiversity management in Tamil Nadu and Orissa, India
E.D. Israel Oliver King, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India
Resilience, species diversity and livelihoods in the Andean Amazonian transitional area, in Ecuador
Rafael Moreno, Faculty of Agrarian Sciences, National University of Loja, Loja, Ecuador
Resilience, genetic diversity and livelihoods in Tigray, Ethiopia
Fetien Abay, Institute of Environment, Gender and Development Studies, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
Resilience, biodiversity and landscapes: Opportunities for sustainable development reserves in Brazil
Nivaldo Peroni and Natalia Hanazaki, Department of Ecology and Zoology, Centre for Biological Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil
Participatory learning and action research for designing multi-level strategic action plans
Abishkar Subedi and Marja Helen Thijssen, Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Resilience, conservation and adaptation strategies
Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit, Bioversity International, Office for South Asia, New Delhi, India
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