The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Coordinating Unit has collaborated with the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) to launch the open call for proposals on “Agricultural Knowledge Networks, Innovation and Behavioral Change for Climate Change Adaptation.”
This Open Call is for a project with the Indo-Gangetic Plains CCAFS team, and the research will accordingly be focused on South Asia.
The objective of this call is to improve farmers’ current adaptive methods and abilities, and to encourage or accelerate adaptive change, by first better understanding how and from where farmers get their information, how they make their decisions, and in what instances they choose to make adaptive changes.
The project will be a fieldwork-based study in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh that utilizes qualitative processes (e.g., surveys at the household and/or village level, participatory mapping or diagramming exercises, etc.), in conjunction with a review of relevant secondary literature. It will feature a gender, social, and economic differentiation component, as well as a visual element, via photo and video outputs.
Deadline: 20 August 2011
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