Food Insecurity at the Time of Climate Change: Sharing and Learning from Bottom-Up Responses in the Caribbean Region
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Law
Abstract
For the Greater Caribbean states - especially Small Island Developing States (SIDS) - climate change is re-shaping the relationship between land and people. Recent storms have wiped out the entire sugar cane production of Cuba, banana plantations in Jamaica, St Lucia and Dominica, and decimated nutmeg exports from Grenada, while the decrease in rainfall has in some cases destroyed entire food crops. Furthermore, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) - a grouping of twenty countries in the region - states that over 90% of its food is imported, which makes them vulnerable to sudden economic, political, and environmental shocks, wherein their food supplies can be suspended for indeterminable periods of time, making this region food insecure.
Here, top-down interventions have typically paid little attention to the history of the interaction between people and nature, with the unintended consequence of neglecting and erasing the cultural memory and the heritage represented by centuries of collective and bottom up forms of land and maritime resource management. This is particularly problematic in cases involving indigenous communities, women, elder people and the young generations, along with minority ethnic communities with strong connections to the land, where there is the added burden of living with the legacy of colonialism and transatlantic slavery, upon which these economies are built. Indeed, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is on oft cited, but rarely acknowledged barrier to policy making around agricultural development in the region and the construction of resilient and sustainable food systems consistent with fostering the welfare and equitable socio-economic development for all.
In response, our partnership brings together four academic partners and grass-roots civil society organisations across 5 countries in the Greater Caribbean region: McChesney George Secondary School in Antigua and Barbuda; the Library of African and Indigenous Studies in Belize; the Raizal Youth Organisation in the Archipelago de San Andres, Colombia; the Bernard Lodge Farmer's Association in Jamaica; the Fidecomiso of the Caño Martin Peña Community Land Trust in Puerto Rico. Each partner has specific expertise, ongoing projects and a vision for their future.
The work of this multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary partnership will comprise:
1. The running of the five workshops in each of the five countries. These will be organised, led, and hosted by the local communities with support from the two local Research Assistants and the academic partners. Workshops will comprise the face-face knowledge co-production component of the partnership through the sharing of local histories and experiences of food insecurity in the face of environmental changes, as well as their locally embedded solutions. Best practices will be identified, mapped and their reproduction collectively discussed.
2. The website - regularly updated and monitored by the two RA's - serves as a tool to share data and serves as a platform for ongoing engagement by participants after the workshops, which will facilitate ongoing analysis and interpretation of insights generated.
3. Expand the network via the workshops and the website: reach out and engage more communities within the countries involved in the existing partnership, and to further communities in other Greater Caribbean countries not involved in this partnership.
4. Map the regulatory framework and policy environment of each country as the basis upon which to begin incorporating workshop data into policy relevant insights.
5. Develop policy briefs based on findings of workshops and ongoing knowledge co-production. Diffusion to relevant policy makers through direct engagement in the workshops and indirectly with the help of 'Policy Bristol' and the preparation of policy briefs.
6. Publishing academic research on both the process of the partnership's establishment and the knowledge co-produce
Here, top-down interventions have typically paid little attention to the history of the interaction between people and nature, with the unintended consequence of neglecting and erasing the cultural memory and the heritage represented by centuries of collective and bottom up forms of land and maritime resource management. This is particularly problematic in cases involving indigenous communities, women, elder people and the young generations, along with minority ethnic communities with strong connections to the land, where there is the added burden of living with the legacy of colonialism and transatlantic slavery, upon which these economies are built. Indeed, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is on oft cited, but rarely acknowledged barrier to policy making around agricultural development in the region and the construction of resilient and sustainable food systems consistent with fostering the welfare and equitable socio-economic development for all.
In response, our partnership brings together four academic partners and grass-roots civil society organisations across 5 countries in the Greater Caribbean region: McChesney George Secondary School in Antigua and Barbuda; the Library of African and Indigenous Studies in Belize; the Raizal Youth Organisation in the Archipelago de San Andres, Colombia; the Bernard Lodge Farmer's Association in Jamaica; the Fidecomiso of the Caño Martin Peña Community Land Trust in Puerto Rico. Each partner has specific expertise, ongoing projects and a vision for their future.
The work of this multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary partnership will comprise:
1. The running of the five workshops in each of the five countries. These will be organised, led, and hosted by the local communities with support from the two local Research Assistants and the academic partners. Workshops will comprise the face-face knowledge co-production component of the partnership through the sharing of local histories and experiences of food insecurity in the face of environmental changes, as well as their locally embedded solutions. Best practices will be identified, mapped and their reproduction collectively discussed.
2. The website - regularly updated and monitored by the two RA's - serves as a tool to share data and serves as a platform for ongoing engagement by participants after the workshops, which will facilitate ongoing analysis and interpretation of insights generated.
3. Expand the network via the workshops and the website: reach out and engage more communities within the countries involved in the existing partnership, and to further communities in other Greater Caribbean countries not involved in this partnership.
4. Map the regulatory framework and policy environment of each country as the basis upon which to begin incorporating workshop data into policy relevant insights.
5. Develop policy briefs based on findings of workshops and ongoing knowledge co-production. Diffusion to relevant policy makers through direct engagement in the workshops and indirectly with the help of 'Policy Bristol' and the preparation of policy briefs.
6. Publishing academic research on both the process of the partnership's establishment and the knowledge co-produce
Planned Impact
This work has the potential to influence policy processes whereby policy actors are struggling with the identification of the most effective way of tackling the double emergency of food insecurity and climate change. The proposals will be relevant to their National Adaptation Plans and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (primarily but not exclusively SDGs: 2, 11, 14 and 15), the interaction of which requires the identification and implementation of resilient, long-term, democratic and legitimate responses to climate change that are respectful of the sea and the land, but also capable of halving hunger. At the international levels, organisations, donor countries and NGOs will be interested. For instance, the findings will be of direct concern to the UN agencies (including the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Special Rapporteurs on the right to food, migration and extreme poverty) The key agencies concerned with these SDGs are UN Women, the World Health Organisation, UNOHCR, UNODC, UNHCR and the FAO. We also anticipate that the research will impact upon UK government overseas development agenda, by enabling more realistic policy and practice of development and climate change adaptation and mitigation that are rooted in experiences, history and cultural heritage of local communities directly affected by food insecurity and climate change. In particular, the outcome of the workshops will be of particular interest to DFID and other regional and international donors that are increasingly recognising the importance of harnessing existing climate resilience knowledge, scaling up historically successful models of farming and land use in order to produce a coordinated framework for the whole Caribbean region.
Given the specific nature of the partnership and the central role of communities in creating and managing spaces of knowledge co-production, the findings relate to both the process and outputs. Impact and engagement are key objectives throughout the two years and they refer not only to concrete proposal and changes in the political framework, but also in a transformation of the ways in which communities organise and dialogue, along with the way in which academics engage with communities and are capable of constructing an equitable partnership. The partnership's members are well placed to build a scaffolding where every party feels comfortable, accepted, heard and where innovation, history, tradition, cultural diversity and difficulties are collectively harnessed in order to achieve the common objective of identifying practices, ideas and proposals that will lead to the improvement of the social and ecological resilience of the communities involved and of other communities in ODA recipient countries, including LMICs and LDCs. The academic partners have agreed to share their institutional communication channels to get ready access to media, links to other relevant organisations and research networks (e.g. Caribbean Studies Association, Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, the Rapoport Centre for Human Rights at University of Texas, the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol), along with policy makers and other relevant stakeholders who will learn from the experiences and the research and consequently change their practices with regards the conception and implementation of development projects related to food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation In order to strengthen the impact of our partnership and be more effective in the communication with policy makers and development organizations, we will use PolicyBristol (a virtual centre at the University of Bristol showcasing policy-relevant work to users outside the academic community), University Press Office, and other channels through the affiliation and networks of the project members to elaborate and, disseminate policy, practice and practices.
Given the specific nature of the partnership and the central role of communities in creating and managing spaces of knowledge co-production, the findings relate to both the process and outputs. Impact and engagement are key objectives throughout the two years and they refer not only to concrete proposal and changes in the political framework, but also in a transformation of the ways in which communities organise and dialogue, along with the way in which academics engage with communities and are capable of constructing an equitable partnership. The partnership's members are well placed to build a scaffolding where every party feels comfortable, accepted, heard and where innovation, history, tradition, cultural diversity and difficulties are collectively harnessed in order to achieve the common objective of identifying practices, ideas and proposals that will lead to the improvement of the social and ecological resilience of the communities involved and of other communities in ODA recipient countries, including LMICs and LDCs. The academic partners have agreed to share their institutional communication channels to get ready access to media, links to other relevant organisations and research networks (e.g. Caribbean Studies Association, Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, the Rapoport Centre for Human Rights at University of Texas, the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol), along with policy makers and other relevant stakeholders who will learn from the experiences and the research and consequently change their practices with regards the conception and implementation of development projects related to food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation In order to strengthen the impact of our partnership and be more effective in the communication with policy makers and development organizations, we will use PolicyBristol (a virtual centre at the University of Bristol showcasing policy-relevant work to users outside the academic community), University Press Office, and other channels through the affiliation and networks of the project members to elaborate and, disseminate policy, practice and practices.
Organisations
- University of Bristol (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Antwerp (Collaboration)
- Raizal Youth Organization (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of West Indies (Collaboration)
- Pontifical Xavierian University (Collaboration)
- National University of Colombia (Collaboration)
- Sir McChesney George Secondary School (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña (Collaboration)
- Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Cano Martin (Project Partner)
- Bernard Lodge Farmers Group (Project Partner)
- Library of African & Indigenous Studies (Project Partner)
Publications
| Title | Food, Land and Climate Justice |
| Description | It describes the project Food Insecurity at the Time of Climate Change: Sharing and Learning from Bottom-Up Responses in the Caribbean Region developed in the islands of San Andres and Providence, Colombia, where the community organizations and academics hosted a workshop in February 2022, a year after Hurricane Iota hit the archipelago. The film compares the island before and after, and points the importance of the Raizal cultural values, the traditional local agriculture and seed custodians for food sovereignty and security as an example for the Greater Caribbean. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The video encourages the local food production and the protection of creole seeds, as a base to overcome food sovereignty and security issues, especially after extreme climate events such as Hurricane Iota. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLr5LMUFuEtrBJixmnJYG3A |
| Description | This project develops a network of academics and grass-roots civil society organisations across 5 countries in the Caribbean to develop capacity to jointly address problems related food insecurity that result from environmental, economic, and social change. By creating this network, we have aimed to strengthen the efforts of these grass-roots organisations and individuals to address such problems, partly through supporting processes of communication which can enable them to recognise the shared nature of their experiences of these problems, and pathways towards solutions. So far, such engagement has taken place online with a monthly meeting between all the partners, and we have found that through this process - as well as two international webinars - that community partners who had previously never met were able to identify common problems/solutions, and are in the process of identifying pathways to empower their communities to mitigate the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, now also compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic - through the sharing of ideas (seed banking, seed-sharing, town meeting organising). Not least, partners have begun to reach beyond national boundaries in communicating with other organisations connected with partners of this project, elsewhere in the Caribbean. While delays due to COVID meant a delay to the disbursement of funds, we responded by organizing via digital platforms, and created space for sharing and mutual learning. Having identified key elements concerning similarities and differences around the states' responses to covid-19 and how they relate/depend on the state of continuous climatic and food emergency that is experienced by the small islands, we set the stage for in-person workshops where the sharing of common experiences and building relationships for a lasting network were made more concrete. These meetings were fewer than planned (one trip delegation to Jamaica for two workshops with the Bernard Lodge Farmers' Group, and one trip to Providencia), but made use of the remainder of funds left in the DI budget which was cut due to the UK Government cuts to ODA funds. Providencia has been hit by a hurricane, Jamaica has been hit by a flood and Puerto Rico and Barbuda are in the post-hurricane reconstruction phase. Summary of key findings: - Covid-19 hit hardest in countries without a strong policy of food production and that are dependent on import - Covid-19 hit hardest families without access to means of food production - Covid-19 impacted the possibility for islanders to travel to USA and Canada for temporary work and deprived of significant income - Small and remote islands lack essential infrastructures to deal with climatic emergency - The reconstruction is still ongoing and it concerns mainly buildings and infrastructures rather than food producing facilities (the core of our project) - The covid-19 pandemic has been used in at least 2 countries to speed up the process of eviction - The recovery from the covid-19 pandemic in the countries that we work with seem to be based on the relaunch of tourism and trade, with little or no consideration on the needs for adaptation and the establishment of a resilient food system - Voices of the farmers have been excluded in the definition of the post-covid recovery plan - Needs of people change rapidly and research must be flexible - Voices, stories and experiences of people most affected by climate emergency are as invisible as the stories, experiences and voices of the most affected by covid emergency - Race, gender and class implications of the climate crisis and the covid-19 crisis are evident in all 5 countries. |
| Exploitation Route | The outputs of this research so far include one academic publications and two webinars, which evidence and support the stated outcomes of this project, which are to connect communities across the Caribbean, and to facilitate the sharing of their experiences of food insecurity in the face of environmental change, as well as establishing common solutions. So far, the outcomes show that cross-community international engagement is essential to empowering small farmers and other organisations seeking to resist problems of food insecurity faced by marginalised and vulnerable social groups, and demonstrate that communities working directly and indirectly with the land are full of novel ideas about how to increase food security not only for their communities, but for the wider nation. We have learned so much in the last two years. Of the multiple crises happening at the same time, as outlined above, we are continuing the work via an ongoing connection via a website currently under development. On this website we will share findings from each community project, with visual and documentary evidence shared from co-resent and virtual workshops and webinars. The short films recorded by community partners will also be shared here once they become available in edited form in summer 2023. Resources will be uploaded with an English and Spanish option, where possible. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | https://strongercaribbeantogether.org |
| Description | This networking project has brought together communities that face the effects of food insecurity brought about by environmental changes, loss of access to land, as well as national and international responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. While fewer co-present meetings have taken place than planned, the connections made via monthly online meetings, as well as live international webinars have secured means for communities across the Caribbean to share experiences that are not covered in mainstream media, which has, in their words, made them feel somewhat less alone in facing the vulnerabilities further exposed by response to the COVID-19 pandemic brought forth at a local and national level in their respective countries. As one panellist put it "I expect to share some strategies with our brothers and sisters from the Caribbean, based on solidarity and maybe 'comunalidad', as we say it in Spanish, so we together we can face this crisis, reconnecting our territories, and exchanging our knowledge". In response, panelists were asked by attendees to share specific proposals that their organizations are putting forth, in the time of COVID, and in organizing against hunger and food insecurity. They were asked what models of land access and land distribution they propose for a life of dignity for the people of the Caribbean. These questions were answered concretely, and the response to the webinar was that this provided an opportunity to share not only experiences of loss and hardship, but to learn of solutions to these commonly shared problems. This marks the beginning of a wider conversation that is likely to show impacts beyond feelings of connection - such as concrete ideas for developing agroecological methods of farming, meeting needs for agricultural inputs, and preparing/storing/preserving harvested foods in order to boost security in the face of economic and environmental threats. Community engagement activities in Belize have worked to raise awareness of the expansion projects for the Port of Belize by the Waterloo investment group - the EIA for this development has since been denied, partly on the grounds of lack of effective public participation. It could be argued that grass roots organizers working in conjunction with this project have contributed to the sense of community empowerment around such investment proposals and to speak out regarding the potential impact on their local environment and livelihoods. |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Intervention by the Special rapporteurs on the right to a healthy environment and on the right to food in defense of the food and land system in Barbuda |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The intervention by the UN treaty bodies has strengthened the voices of the people of Barbuda and their call for a holistic approach to land, climate and food justice. At the same time, it has increased the international visibility of the ongoing situation and the need to pay attention to the way in which small-island states react to climate disasters like hurricane Irma and Maria. It can be said that the UN treaty bodies have embraced the position advocated for by our project and our members. Concretely speaking, the intervention has not yet led to a significant change in public policies by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, but it has triggered a series of national and international reactions, including by media, the Caribbean Development Bank, the Open Society Foundation and international environmental organizations. |
| URL | https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjI1-zX2Kz2AhXFvKQKHYNzBK0Q... |
| Description | UEF engagement with Belizean department of environment during assessment of EIA for expansion port of Belize |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | • December 15 2021 the National Environmental Assessment Committee (NEAC) the advisory body to the Department of the Environment denied the Environmental Impact Assessment of the developer to the proposed 400 million BZD development at the Port of Belize Ltd. Included in the environmental clearance denial were 6 points. The 6th point was the focus of UEF's advocacy: "Port of Belize failed to consult with a representative sample of the population that are nearest the project site and likely to be most impacted. Consequently, the Committee recommended not to grant environmental clearance to this project." Although UEF was not the only party that had advocated for such outcome, it was the most vocal and the closest to the local population who would be affected by the expansion of the port and by the lack of adequate prior and informed consultation/consent. |
| Description | Disaster Capitalism in the Caribbean Region: Networking, Sharing and Learning from Below (DisCC) |
| Amount | $121,690 (USD) |
| Organisation | Open Society Foundation, New York |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | Food Land Climate Partnership |
| Organisation | Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña |
| Country | Puerto Rico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration between the partners and communities involved in this project combines disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. The project aims to share stories that surround living with food insecurity and to share strategies of resistance. In response to the challenges posed by COVID-19, I have put to use my training as a sociologist to consider how digital research methods might be used in order to deliver these intended outcomes. To this end, I have worked with the partners to develop a vision for the digital implementation of an international forum for knowledge co-production and the sharing of stories/experiences of environmental change as tied to issues of land, food, and heritage. Having trialled an international webinar format to replace co-resent workshops, we have used our skills in developing novel research strategies to devise a new plan that combines case study research strategies with live digital webinars. We have been working with community partners to develop research questions that will sit at the heart of their investigations, as they have members of their community take workshop participants on a virtual walking tour of their community initiative (farm, school, land trust, library). Once footage is collected, the partners will work with us as an academic research team and with each community organisation involved in this project to analyse these shared stories as data, which will be edited into a format that can share the minutiae of detail captured by individual stories, but distilled and framed in a way that can engage and inspire discussion at a live webinar event. Such digital representation of stories - edited with the support of professional videographers - offers the opportunity to also engage audiences beyond the webinar as we share these short films via social media and the project website currently under the initial phases of development. In getting to this stage, we have been working to rethink the skills and capacity required of the two Research Assistants who will be employed by this project, one based in Colombia, and one in Jamaica. These include a proficiency in social science research methods, and an ability to manage and share content and outputs on the website developed as a platform to support the sharing of these digital stories. In this way, the contributions made so far by myself/the academic research team involve collaborative project management skills, and experience in developing research strategies which have been mobilised in order to rethink our jointly envisioned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The academic partners are dedicating - over the course of the 2 year project - 2 hours per week of their time in kind, in which they work with a Research Assistant (RA) funded directly by the project to co-ordinate activities including the engagement of a group of agricultural stakeholders and small farmers in Jamaica who are struggling to adapt their livelihoods in the face of climate change, and now as the result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first workshop of this project was due to take place in Jamaica, and was to be co-ordinated by this partner and the appointed RA, and has been delayed due to the impossibility of travel to co-present meetings due to social distancing measures, partners have instead dedicated their time to work with local stakeholders and the aforementioned groups, working with them to share their experiences via an international webinar hosted on behalf of this project. The partners have also provided technical support and hosted these international meetings of stakeholders and scholars. The first of these webinars; 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was also promoted via Jamaican National Radio. Two project partners, and myself, appeared on the programme 'Farm Talk' in order to raise awareness of the foundational issues of the project, but also to invite a wider non-academic community to attend the webinar. This proved successful, with over 40 participants attending the live webinar, and over 80 accessing the recording after the event. Such an outcome would not have been possible without the efforts, expertise, and connections offered by our local academic and civil society partners on the ground in Jamaica. A community partner in Belize also made use of connections with an indigenous media channel in order to publicise our network, and to promote the webinars. Attendance from such communities attests to the invaluable contributions made by these partners not only in delivering the content of the webinar - reaching other communities facing similar challenges, as per the aims of this network project - but extending the reach of the network beyond the partners of this project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in one article published in the journal Ecologia Politica entitled: 'Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada'. This article is interdisciplinary in its engagement with these issues, and involves all project partners at academic institutions as well as the community partners. It is published in Spanish. Disciplines include political science, political ecology, development economics, sociology, and law. Furthermore, this collaboration has so far resulted in two international webinars which have brought farmers and stakeholders together to share their experiences of and strategies of resistance to problems of hunger, access to land, gender inequality, and COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Food Land Climate Partnership |
| Organisation | National University of Colombia |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration between the partners and communities involved in this project combines disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. The project aims to share stories that surround living with food insecurity and to share strategies of resistance. In response to the challenges posed by COVID-19, I have put to use my training as a sociologist to consider how digital research methods might be used in order to deliver these intended outcomes. To this end, I have worked with the partners to develop a vision for the digital implementation of an international forum for knowledge co-production and the sharing of stories/experiences of environmental change as tied to issues of land, food, and heritage. Having trialled an international webinar format to replace co-resent workshops, we have used our skills in developing novel research strategies to devise a new plan that combines case study research strategies with live digital webinars. We have been working with community partners to develop research questions that will sit at the heart of their investigations, as they have members of their community take workshop participants on a virtual walking tour of their community initiative (farm, school, land trust, library). Once footage is collected, the partners will work with us as an academic research team and with each community organisation involved in this project to analyse these shared stories as data, which will be edited into a format that can share the minutiae of detail captured by individual stories, but distilled and framed in a way that can engage and inspire discussion at a live webinar event. Such digital representation of stories - edited with the support of professional videographers - offers the opportunity to also engage audiences beyond the webinar as we share these short films via social media and the project website currently under the initial phases of development. In getting to this stage, we have been working to rethink the skills and capacity required of the two Research Assistants who will be employed by this project, one based in Colombia, and one in Jamaica. These include a proficiency in social science research methods, and an ability to manage and share content and outputs on the website developed as a platform to support the sharing of these digital stories. In this way, the contributions made so far by myself/the academic research team involve collaborative project management skills, and experience in developing research strategies which have been mobilised in order to rethink our jointly envisioned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The academic partners are dedicating - over the course of the 2 year project - 2 hours per week of their time in kind, in which they work with a Research Assistant (RA) funded directly by the project to co-ordinate activities including the engagement of a group of agricultural stakeholders and small farmers in Jamaica who are struggling to adapt their livelihoods in the face of climate change, and now as the result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first workshop of this project was due to take place in Jamaica, and was to be co-ordinated by this partner and the appointed RA, and has been delayed due to the impossibility of travel to co-present meetings due to social distancing measures, partners have instead dedicated their time to work with local stakeholders and the aforementioned groups, working with them to share their experiences via an international webinar hosted on behalf of this project. The partners have also provided technical support and hosted these international meetings of stakeholders and scholars. The first of these webinars; 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was also promoted via Jamaican National Radio. Two project partners, and myself, appeared on the programme 'Farm Talk' in order to raise awareness of the foundational issues of the project, but also to invite a wider non-academic community to attend the webinar. This proved successful, with over 40 participants attending the live webinar, and over 80 accessing the recording after the event. Such an outcome would not have been possible without the efforts, expertise, and connections offered by our local academic and civil society partners on the ground in Jamaica. A community partner in Belize also made use of connections with an indigenous media channel in order to publicise our network, and to promote the webinars. Attendance from such communities attests to the invaluable contributions made by these partners not only in delivering the content of the webinar - reaching other communities facing similar challenges, as per the aims of this network project - but extending the reach of the network beyond the partners of this project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in one article published in the journal Ecologia Politica entitled: 'Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada'. This article is interdisciplinary in its engagement with these issues, and involves all project partners at academic institutions as well as the community partners. It is published in Spanish. Disciplines include political science, political ecology, development economics, sociology, and law. Furthermore, this collaboration has so far resulted in two international webinars which have brought farmers and stakeholders together to share their experiences of and strategies of resistance to problems of hunger, access to land, gender inequality, and COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Food Land Climate Partnership |
| Organisation | Pontifical Xavierian University |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration between the partners and communities involved in this project combines disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. The project aims to share stories that surround living with food insecurity and to share strategies of resistance. In response to the challenges posed by COVID-19, I have put to use my training as a sociologist to consider how digital research methods might be used in order to deliver these intended outcomes. To this end, I have worked with the partners to develop a vision for the digital implementation of an international forum for knowledge co-production and the sharing of stories/experiences of environmental change as tied to issues of land, food, and heritage. Having trialled an international webinar format to replace co-resent workshops, we have used our skills in developing novel research strategies to devise a new plan that combines case study research strategies with live digital webinars. We have been working with community partners to develop research questions that will sit at the heart of their investigations, as they have members of their community take workshop participants on a virtual walking tour of their community initiative (farm, school, land trust, library). Once footage is collected, the partners will work with us as an academic research team and with each community organisation involved in this project to analyse these shared stories as data, which will be edited into a format that can share the minutiae of detail captured by individual stories, but distilled and framed in a way that can engage and inspire discussion at a live webinar event. Such digital representation of stories - edited with the support of professional videographers - offers the opportunity to also engage audiences beyond the webinar as we share these short films via social media and the project website currently under the initial phases of development. In getting to this stage, we have been working to rethink the skills and capacity required of the two Research Assistants who will be employed by this project, one based in Colombia, and one in Jamaica. These include a proficiency in social science research methods, and an ability to manage and share content and outputs on the website developed as a platform to support the sharing of these digital stories. In this way, the contributions made so far by myself/the academic research team involve collaborative project management skills, and experience in developing research strategies which have been mobilised in order to rethink our jointly envisioned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The academic partners are dedicating - over the course of the 2 year project - 2 hours per week of their time in kind, in which they work with a Research Assistant (RA) funded directly by the project to co-ordinate activities including the engagement of a group of agricultural stakeholders and small farmers in Jamaica who are struggling to adapt their livelihoods in the face of climate change, and now as the result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first workshop of this project was due to take place in Jamaica, and was to be co-ordinated by this partner and the appointed RA, and has been delayed due to the impossibility of travel to co-present meetings due to social distancing measures, partners have instead dedicated their time to work with local stakeholders and the aforementioned groups, working with them to share their experiences via an international webinar hosted on behalf of this project. The partners have also provided technical support and hosted these international meetings of stakeholders and scholars. The first of these webinars; 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was also promoted via Jamaican National Radio. Two project partners, and myself, appeared on the programme 'Farm Talk' in order to raise awareness of the foundational issues of the project, but also to invite a wider non-academic community to attend the webinar. This proved successful, with over 40 participants attending the live webinar, and over 80 accessing the recording after the event. Such an outcome would not have been possible without the efforts, expertise, and connections offered by our local academic and civil society partners on the ground in Jamaica. A community partner in Belize also made use of connections with an indigenous media channel in order to publicise our network, and to promote the webinars. Attendance from such communities attests to the invaluable contributions made by these partners not only in delivering the content of the webinar - reaching other communities facing similar challenges, as per the aims of this network project - but extending the reach of the network beyond the partners of this project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in one article published in the journal Ecologia Politica entitled: 'Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada'. This article is interdisciplinary in its engagement with these issues, and involves all project partners at academic institutions as well as the community partners. It is published in Spanish. Disciplines include political science, political ecology, development economics, sociology, and law. Furthermore, this collaboration has so far resulted in two international webinars which have brought farmers and stakeholders together to share their experiences of and strategies of resistance to problems of hunger, access to land, gender inequality, and COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Food Land Climate Partnership |
| Organisation | Raizal Youth Organization |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration between the partners and communities involved in this project combines disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. The project aims to share stories that surround living with food insecurity and to share strategies of resistance. In response to the challenges posed by COVID-19, I have put to use my training as a sociologist to consider how digital research methods might be used in order to deliver these intended outcomes. To this end, I have worked with the partners to develop a vision for the digital implementation of an international forum for knowledge co-production and the sharing of stories/experiences of environmental change as tied to issues of land, food, and heritage. Having trialled an international webinar format to replace co-resent workshops, we have used our skills in developing novel research strategies to devise a new plan that combines case study research strategies with live digital webinars. We have been working with community partners to develop research questions that will sit at the heart of their investigations, as they have members of their community take workshop participants on a virtual walking tour of their community initiative (farm, school, land trust, library). Once footage is collected, the partners will work with us as an academic research team and with each community organisation involved in this project to analyse these shared stories as data, which will be edited into a format that can share the minutiae of detail captured by individual stories, but distilled and framed in a way that can engage and inspire discussion at a live webinar event. Such digital representation of stories - edited with the support of professional videographers - offers the opportunity to also engage audiences beyond the webinar as we share these short films via social media and the project website currently under the initial phases of development. In getting to this stage, we have been working to rethink the skills and capacity required of the two Research Assistants who will be employed by this project, one based in Colombia, and one in Jamaica. These include a proficiency in social science research methods, and an ability to manage and share content and outputs on the website developed as a platform to support the sharing of these digital stories. In this way, the contributions made so far by myself/the academic research team involve collaborative project management skills, and experience in developing research strategies which have been mobilised in order to rethink our jointly envisioned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The academic partners are dedicating - over the course of the 2 year project - 2 hours per week of their time in kind, in which they work with a Research Assistant (RA) funded directly by the project to co-ordinate activities including the engagement of a group of agricultural stakeholders and small farmers in Jamaica who are struggling to adapt their livelihoods in the face of climate change, and now as the result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first workshop of this project was due to take place in Jamaica, and was to be co-ordinated by this partner and the appointed RA, and has been delayed due to the impossibility of travel to co-present meetings due to social distancing measures, partners have instead dedicated their time to work with local stakeholders and the aforementioned groups, working with them to share their experiences via an international webinar hosted on behalf of this project. The partners have also provided technical support and hosted these international meetings of stakeholders and scholars. The first of these webinars; 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was also promoted via Jamaican National Radio. Two project partners, and myself, appeared on the programme 'Farm Talk' in order to raise awareness of the foundational issues of the project, but also to invite a wider non-academic community to attend the webinar. This proved successful, with over 40 participants attending the live webinar, and over 80 accessing the recording after the event. Such an outcome would not have been possible without the efforts, expertise, and connections offered by our local academic and civil society partners on the ground in Jamaica. A community partner in Belize also made use of connections with an indigenous media channel in order to publicise our network, and to promote the webinars. Attendance from such communities attests to the invaluable contributions made by these partners not only in delivering the content of the webinar - reaching other communities facing similar challenges, as per the aims of this network project - but extending the reach of the network beyond the partners of this project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in one article published in the journal Ecologia Politica entitled: 'Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada'. This article is interdisciplinary in its engagement with these issues, and involves all project partners at academic institutions as well as the community partners. It is published in Spanish. Disciplines include political science, political ecology, development economics, sociology, and law. Furthermore, this collaboration has so far resulted in two international webinars which have brought farmers and stakeholders together to share their experiences of and strategies of resistance to problems of hunger, access to land, gender inequality, and COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Food Land Climate Partnership |
| Organisation | Sir McChesney George Secondary School |
| Country | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration between the partners and communities involved in this project combines disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. The project aims to share stories that surround living with food insecurity and to share strategies of resistance. In response to the challenges posed by COVID-19, I have put to use my training as a sociologist to consider how digital research methods might be used in order to deliver these intended outcomes. To this end, I have worked with the partners to develop a vision for the digital implementation of an international forum for knowledge co-production and the sharing of stories/experiences of environmental change as tied to issues of land, food, and heritage. Having trialled an international webinar format to replace co-resent workshops, we have used our skills in developing novel research strategies to devise a new plan that combines case study research strategies with live digital webinars. We have been working with community partners to develop research questions that will sit at the heart of their investigations, as they have members of their community take workshop participants on a virtual walking tour of their community initiative (farm, school, land trust, library). Once footage is collected, the partners will work with us as an academic research team and with each community organisation involved in this project to analyse these shared stories as data, which will be edited into a format that can share the minutiae of detail captured by individual stories, but distilled and framed in a way that can engage and inspire discussion at a live webinar event. Such digital representation of stories - edited with the support of professional videographers - offers the opportunity to also engage audiences beyond the webinar as we share these short films via social media and the project website currently under the initial phases of development. In getting to this stage, we have been working to rethink the skills and capacity required of the two Research Assistants who will be employed by this project, one based in Colombia, and one in Jamaica. These include a proficiency in social science research methods, and an ability to manage and share content and outputs on the website developed as a platform to support the sharing of these digital stories. In this way, the contributions made so far by myself/the academic research team involve collaborative project management skills, and experience in developing research strategies which have been mobilised in order to rethink our jointly envisioned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The academic partners are dedicating - over the course of the 2 year project - 2 hours per week of their time in kind, in which they work with a Research Assistant (RA) funded directly by the project to co-ordinate activities including the engagement of a group of agricultural stakeholders and small farmers in Jamaica who are struggling to adapt their livelihoods in the face of climate change, and now as the result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first workshop of this project was due to take place in Jamaica, and was to be co-ordinated by this partner and the appointed RA, and has been delayed due to the impossibility of travel to co-present meetings due to social distancing measures, partners have instead dedicated their time to work with local stakeholders and the aforementioned groups, working with them to share their experiences via an international webinar hosted on behalf of this project. The partners have also provided technical support and hosted these international meetings of stakeholders and scholars. The first of these webinars; 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was also promoted via Jamaican National Radio. Two project partners, and myself, appeared on the programme 'Farm Talk' in order to raise awareness of the foundational issues of the project, but also to invite a wider non-academic community to attend the webinar. This proved successful, with over 40 participants attending the live webinar, and over 80 accessing the recording after the event. Such an outcome would not have been possible without the efforts, expertise, and connections offered by our local academic and civil society partners on the ground in Jamaica. A community partner in Belize also made use of connections with an indigenous media channel in order to publicise our network, and to promote the webinars. Attendance from such communities attests to the invaluable contributions made by these partners not only in delivering the content of the webinar - reaching other communities facing similar challenges, as per the aims of this network project - but extending the reach of the network beyond the partners of this project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in one article published in the journal Ecologia Politica entitled: 'Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada'. This article is interdisciplinary in its engagement with these issues, and involves all project partners at academic institutions as well as the community partners. It is published in Spanish. Disciplines include political science, political ecology, development economics, sociology, and law. Furthermore, this collaboration has so far resulted in two international webinars which have brought farmers and stakeholders together to share their experiences of and strategies of resistance to problems of hunger, access to land, gender inequality, and COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Food Land Climate Partnership |
| Organisation | University of Antwerp |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration between the partners and communities involved in this project combines disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. The project aims to share stories that surround living with food insecurity and to share strategies of resistance. In response to the challenges posed by COVID-19, I have put to use my training as a sociologist to consider how digital research methods might be used in order to deliver these intended outcomes. To this end, I have worked with the partners to develop a vision for the digital implementation of an international forum for knowledge co-production and the sharing of stories/experiences of environmental change as tied to issues of land, food, and heritage. Having trialled an international webinar format to replace co-resent workshops, we have used our skills in developing novel research strategies to devise a new plan that combines case study research strategies with live digital webinars. We have been working with community partners to develop research questions that will sit at the heart of their investigations, as they have members of their community take workshop participants on a virtual walking tour of their community initiative (farm, school, land trust, library). Once footage is collected, the partners will work with us as an academic research team and with each community organisation involved in this project to analyse these shared stories as data, which will be edited into a format that can share the minutiae of detail captured by individual stories, but distilled and framed in a way that can engage and inspire discussion at a live webinar event. Such digital representation of stories - edited with the support of professional videographers - offers the opportunity to also engage audiences beyond the webinar as we share these short films via social media and the project website currently under the initial phases of development. In getting to this stage, we have been working to rethink the skills and capacity required of the two Research Assistants who will be employed by this project, one based in Colombia, and one in Jamaica. These include a proficiency in social science research methods, and an ability to manage and share content and outputs on the website developed as a platform to support the sharing of these digital stories. In this way, the contributions made so far by myself/the academic research team involve collaborative project management skills, and experience in developing research strategies which have been mobilised in order to rethink our jointly envisioned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The academic partners are dedicating - over the course of the 2 year project - 2 hours per week of their time in kind, in which they work with a Research Assistant (RA) funded directly by the project to co-ordinate activities including the engagement of a group of agricultural stakeholders and small farmers in Jamaica who are struggling to adapt their livelihoods in the face of climate change, and now as the result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first workshop of this project was due to take place in Jamaica, and was to be co-ordinated by this partner and the appointed RA, and has been delayed due to the impossibility of travel to co-present meetings due to social distancing measures, partners have instead dedicated their time to work with local stakeholders and the aforementioned groups, working with them to share their experiences via an international webinar hosted on behalf of this project. The partners have also provided technical support and hosted these international meetings of stakeholders and scholars. The first of these webinars; 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was also promoted via Jamaican National Radio. Two project partners, and myself, appeared on the programme 'Farm Talk' in order to raise awareness of the foundational issues of the project, but also to invite a wider non-academic community to attend the webinar. This proved successful, with over 40 participants attending the live webinar, and over 80 accessing the recording after the event. Such an outcome would not have been possible without the efforts, expertise, and connections offered by our local academic and civil society partners on the ground in Jamaica. A community partner in Belize also made use of connections with an indigenous media channel in order to publicise our network, and to promote the webinars. Attendance from such communities attests to the invaluable contributions made by these partners not only in delivering the content of the webinar - reaching other communities facing similar challenges, as per the aims of this network project - but extending the reach of the network beyond the partners of this project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in one article published in the journal Ecologia Politica entitled: 'Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada'. This article is interdisciplinary in its engagement with these issues, and involves all project partners at academic institutions as well as the community partners. It is published in Spanish. Disciplines include political science, political ecology, development economics, sociology, and law. Furthermore, this collaboration has so far resulted in two international webinars which have brought farmers and stakeholders together to share their experiences of and strategies of resistance to problems of hunger, access to land, gender inequality, and COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Food Land Climate Partnership |
| Organisation | University of West Indies |
| Country | Jamaica |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration between the partners and communities involved in this project combines disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. The project aims to share stories that surround living with food insecurity and to share strategies of resistance. In response to the challenges posed by COVID-19, I have put to use my training as a sociologist to consider how digital research methods might be used in order to deliver these intended outcomes. To this end, I have worked with the partners to develop a vision for the digital implementation of an international forum for knowledge co-production and the sharing of stories/experiences of environmental change as tied to issues of land, food, and heritage. Having trialled an international webinar format to replace co-resent workshops, we have used our skills in developing novel research strategies to devise a new plan that combines case study research strategies with live digital webinars. We have been working with community partners to develop research questions that will sit at the heart of their investigations, as they have members of their community take workshop participants on a virtual walking tour of their community initiative (farm, school, land trust, library). Once footage is collected, the partners will work with us as an academic research team and with each community organisation involved in this project to analyse these shared stories as data, which will be edited into a format that can share the minutiae of detail captured by individual stories, but distilled and framed in a way that can engage and inspire discussion at a live webinar event. Such digital representation of stories - edited with the support of professional videographers - offers the opportunity to also engage audiences beyond the webinar as we share these short films via social media and the project website currently under the initial phases of development. In getting to this stage, we have been working to rethink the skills and capacity required of the two Research Assistants who will be employed by this project, one based in Colombia, and one in Jamaica. These include a proficiency in social science research methods, and an ability to manage and share content and outputs on the website developed as a platform to support the sharing of these digital stories. In this way, the contributions made so far by myself/the academic research team involve collaborative project management skills, and experience in developing research strategies which have been mobilised in order to rethink our jointly envisioned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The academic partners are dedicating - over the course of the 2 year project - 2 hours per week of their time in kind, in which they work with a Research Assistant (RA) funded directly by the project to co-ordinate activities including the engagement of a group of agricultural stakeholders and small farmers in Jamaica who are struggling to adapt their livelihoods in the face of climate change, and now as the result of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first workshop of this project was due to take place in Jamaica, and was to be co-ordinated by this partner and the appointed RA, and has been delayed due to the impossibility of travel to co-present meetings due to social distancing measures, partners have instead dedicated their time to work with local stakeholders and the aforementioned groups, working with them to share their experiences via an international webinar hosted on behalf of this project. The partners have also provided technical support and hosted these international meetings of stakeholders and scholars. The first of these webinars; 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was also promoted via Jamaican National Radio. Two project partners, and myself, appeared on the programme 'Farm Talk' in order to raise awareness of the foundational issues of the project, but also to invite a wider non-academic community to attend the webinar. This proved successful, with over 40 participants attending the live webinar, and over 80 accessing the recording after the event. Such an outcome would not have been possible without the efforts, expertise, and connections offered by our local academic and civil society partners on the ground in Jamaica. A community partner in Belize also made use of connections with an indigenous media channel in order to publicise our network, and to promote the webinars. Attendance from such communities attests to the invaluable contributions made by these partners not only in delivering the content of the webinar - reaching other communities facing similar challenges, as per the aims of this network project - but extending the reach of the network beyond the partners of this project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in one article published in the journal Ecologia Politica entitled: 'Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada'. This article is interdisciplinary in its engagement with these issues, and involves all project partners at academic institutions as well as the community partners. It is published in Spanish. Disciplines include political science, political ecology, development economics, sociology, and law. Furthermore, this collaboration has so far resulted in two international webinars which have brought farmers and stakeholders together to share their experiences of and strategies of resistance to problems of hunger, access to land, gender inequality, and COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | University of Antwerp Faculty of Law and Institute of Development Policy |
| Organisation | University of Antwerp |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Worked for formalization of the agreement with UoA and the definition of the tasks of Professor Ferrando |
| Collaborator Contribution | Coordination of research. Connection with Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Legal advise to members of the consortium. Representation of the project in national and international contexts. Scouting for new funding. Outreach to new possible partners. Co-authorship of academic article. |
| Impact | Contract between UoA, UWI, Nacional and UoA. Joint academic article. Three online workshops. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | 4 community online meetings in Belize |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In September 2021, UEF organized 4 Zoom Community Online Conversations with 4 guests. Namely Maianda Griffith/Youth who lives off Jane Usher Blvd. (1 of the streets that border the property near the Port of Belize Ltd.), Lisa Carne/Executive Director of Fragments of Hope a community based organization that focuses on "the restoration of coral reef habitats and advocacy for the sustainable management of associated habitats." James Neal/Stevedore, and Keisha Rodriquez/Port Loyola Residence and Urban Development Planner |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Climate Change and Land Tenure in the Caribbean |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This webinar addressed Climate Change and land tenure in the Caribbean. UN-Habitat states in a 2019 report that there is a strong link between land tenure insecurity and climate vulnerability. Improved land tenure security is therefore crucial for climate change adaptation. The cases of the Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña in Puerto Rico and the centuries-old communal land ownership on the island of Barbuda demonstrate that collective land tenure increases tenure security and helps communities confront challenges related to climate change. This webinar discussed the importance of land tenure for climate justice, with speakers from Puerto Rico and Barbuda, followed by a roundtable with representatives of community-based organizations from across the Caribbean region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://fb.me/e/Lb2LcvJm |
| Description | Farmers and fisherfolks workshop on climate justice and seeds sovereingty - Providencia (Colombia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Between 21 and 25 February, 2022, the project realized a four days workshop with small-scale farmers and fishermen from the island of Providencia, in Colombia. With the support of the project partner Youth Raizal, Prof. Catalina Toro and research assistant David Barreto have organized, convened and animated a series of exchanges, conversations and visits specifically focused on the link between land, climate and food justice on the island (significantly affected by hurricane Iota). The sessions were an opportunity to exchange good practices and to raise questions. Participants met with experts in agricultural and fishing practices, thus having the possibility of learning new techniques and strategies to address climate, land and food related challenges that affect the island. In addition, the meetings and the visits have been an opportunity to establish new partnerships and expand the outreach of the project. Agro Providencia and the Fishermen Federation of San Andres and Providencia were key partners in the workshop and contributors to the knowledge exchange. Workshop 1 concerned the preservation, propagation and accessibility of heritage seeds. Workshop 2 concerned agro-ecological grounds and the construction of a sustainable and resilient production model for the Providencia island. Prof. Alvaro Acevedo from Uni Nacional (AGRAS) was invited to present and share with local farmers. Lines of action and agricultural agenda for the island where discussed. Thanks to the project funding and inspiration, local farmers started seeds houses and a network of seeds custodians. A fishing expedition was organized with local fisherfolks to learn about the increasing challenges that they are facing due to climate change and the depletion of the marine fauna. Future plans will be developed to address the short-term and long-term needs of this key community of the island. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Feature in France 24 public broadcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Barbuda's fight for land: developers move forwards despite community pushback' This newspiece has featured in France 24 English, which has 2.61 M subscribers. This video has reached 3084 views as of 10/11/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMtdMTvzfw&t=123s |
| Description | Geographies of risk - Podcast recording - Tomaso Ferrando |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In the wake of Hurricane Irma, in September, 2017, a controversial piece of land-reform legislation was proposed for the island of Barbuda that, if enacted, would change the island in fundamental ways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://envidynxlab.org/portfolio/geographies-of-risk-podcast/#episode12 |
| Description | Increasing Belizean awareness of land, climate and food nexus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UEF research, scripted, and produced 3 ads with Filmmaker Sherone Hope. The ads were shot in Southside Belize City within the perimeter nearest to the Port of Belize Ltd. The Port of Belize Ltd. Is the site for the proposed 200 million USD development for a Cruise Terminal, Cargo Expansion, and Cruise Tourism Village. The ads asked people what they knew about the development and advocated for Belizeans to hold the Department of the Environment accountable to hold public hearings with Belizeans on this proposed development. Three media houses agreed to air these 3 ads as public service awareness. Those media houses were: 2 in Belize City, Channel 7 News and Krem Television, and in Southern Belize/Toledo District, PGTV. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interview for Jamaican national news |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Myself, one co-investigator and one community partner from this project appeared on a Jamaican national radio programme 'Farm Talk' to both introduce the project, our own research, and to promote a upcoming webinar hosted by this project, which featured talks by both community partners named on this project as well as representatives from wider networks and organizations. This radio segment sparked discussions between the radio host and callers throughout the programme, and potentially attracted a wider audience of farmers and interested members of the general public to tune in and contribute to the webinar which took place later that afternoon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Interview with Channel 7 news Belize |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jessica Paddock appeared on the Krem TV's Wake Up Belize morning show alongside community partner of this project (UEF's YaYa Marin Coleman) to discuss the aims of this networking project, and the ways we aim to take it forwards. This led to a discussion (with a national phone-in) about the nature of North-South collaborations, especially int he context of the need to develop decolonial research partnerships in these colonized spaces. This interview, among others, went some way towards building trust and rapport with the collaborating organisations, and with those we aim to build collaborative relationships with going forwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | KremTV interview Belize delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On March 4, 2022 Krem Television interviewed the Belize delegation going to Jamaica to attend 2 workshops focusing on Farmers rights and Sustainable Development Planning. Afeni/Shari Chaplin an inner city community organizer from the Mayflower Community in Southside Belize City will represent UEF's collective work grounded in the proposed 200 million USD Port of Belize Ltd development and Kirk Garnett a farmer will represent the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association (BGYEA) group work to develop our community property of Harmonyville. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Experience of the Community Land Trust in Latin America Caño Martín Peña & Rio de Janeiro Favelas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Experience of the Community Land Trust in Latin America Caño Martín Peña & Rio de Janeiro Favelas celebrated on October 21, 2021 via Zoom |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar - CAPITALISM OF DISASTER IN THE CARIBBEAN: Tourism, Development and Displacement of Local Communities. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This webinar brought several leaders from Caribbean communities together to discuss community organization and mobilization, to combat the dispossession of land and other forms of disaster capitalism. The event provides an opportunity for activists, community members, scholars, development professionals and policymakers from all over the world to hear from the communities directly on how they are affected by and organize against disaster capitalism. We will hear from community leaders from Barbuda, Old Providence and Santa Catalina islands, Vieques-Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Belize, and Grenada. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/events/4319048434772959/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_histo... |
| Description | Webinar - Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The webinar 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean' was hosted by the project team, and included speakers and attendees from across the Caribbean, but also from the US, UK and Europe. This event consisted a soft launch of our project in the face of COVID-19 restrictions and enabled the engagement of stakeholders and interested parties beyond our project partners. this is evidenced by increased engagement after the event with the project Facebook group (Food, Land, and Climate Justice in the Caribbean - FLACC). The success of this webinar inspired us to host another one a few weeks later. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/FLACC2020/ |
| Description | Webinar - caribbean Women for Land, Food, and Climate Justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The webinar 'Caribbean women for food, land and climate justice' was hosted by the project team, and included speakers and attendees from across the Caribbean, but also from the US, UK and Europe. This event followed the webinar 'Hunger, COVID-19, and farmer based solutions: stories, knowledge and visions from five food sovereignty organisers from the Caribbean', and provided a space in which to continue the conversation, and extend the reach of this project's network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop on Story Telling for Participatory Action |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Workshop held on Story telling for Participatory Action, co-organized with the Bernard Lodge Farmers Group and for Farmers in the UK-Global Challenges Research Fund-Regional Food Insecurity Project- with the support of the Global Partnership Network, through Equipment grant and Participatory Video Training Workshop. The workshop was faciliated by Ms Kristinia Doughorty- Research Assistant on the GCRF Food insecurity project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Yaya Coleman interview by Andre Habet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On September 6, 2021 YaYa Coleman from UEF was interviewed for an hour about UEF's contribution to this international process of organized people resistance to Disaster Capitalism in a MadaFyah Podcast produced by Andre Habet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |