Enhancing climate resilience in eastern Africa by co-developing equitable solutions to land degradation and supporting their implementation
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Description
Land degradation is a critical problem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which exacerbates vulnerabilities to climate change among agro-pastoralist and farming communities in the region. It increases exposure and sensitivity of agro-ecological systems to climate impacts and reduces effectiveness of climate adaptation options, undermining resilience of the affected communities. It is essential to find effective solutions to mitigating land degradation and implement them successfully in order to strengthen climate resilience of agro-pastoralist and farming communities in SSA and build pathways for climate resilient development. The proposed project aims to achieve this with a focus on nature-based solutions (NbS). Our aim is to strengthen climate resilience of agro-pastoralist and farming communities in SSA by co-developing and testing equitable NbS to land degradation, assessing their feasibility and scalability, and exploring evidence-based pathways to facilitating implementation of such solutions by stakeholders. The project outcomes will provide stakeholders at local to international level with evidence of NbS that are acceptable to stakeholder communities, adaptable to different contexts, and applicable at wider scales.
Objectives
The aim of the project is to strengthen resilience of agro-pastoralist and farming communities in SSA by co-developing and testing equitable NbS to land degradation based on local knowledge. We also aim to assess their suitability, feasibility, and scalability, and explore evidence-based pathways to facilitating implementation of such solutions by stakeholders. The project outcomes will provide stakeholders at local to international level (i.e. funders, policy-makers, and communities) with enhanced evidence on NbS acceptability to stakeholder communities, adaptability to different contexts, and applicability at wider scales. To achieve this, we will advance a novel interdisciplinary approach, combining cutting-edge research in soil and agricultural science, group psychology and anthropology, and development studies, while working collaboratively with stakeholder communities, local NGOs, and policy-makers. The project is structured in three work packages, each pursuing specific objectives. Work package 1 will build on local knowledge to co-develop multi-purpose NbS to land degradation (Objective 1), test their effectiveness across contexts (Objective 2), and model scalability (Objective 3). Work package 2 will examine the role of gender, youth, and intersectional inequity and vulnerability in the context of land degradation (Objective 4) and explore pathways to implementing equitable solutions that are sensitive to gender and age-defined social differences (Objective 5). Work package 3 will develop a community-based social psychological approach to maximizing adoption of NbS co-selected in WPs 1-2. We will identify barriers and opportunities for solutions adoption across study sites (Objective 6) and test a group-based intervention aimed at addressing potential barriers for implementation and strengthening community resilience and wellbeing (Objective 7). The programme of work will be delivered across three SSA sites: Dedo district in south-western Ethiopia (smallholder farming communities), Kongwa district in central Tanzania (agro-pastoralist and farming communities), and Kajiado county in southern Kenya (pastoralist communities transitioning to mixed farming). Differences across sites will allow us to contextualise findings across various geographic conditions, livelihood types, and socio-cultural contexts.
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