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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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