Kusheh, na minem Fatu, en mi na koko farmer Hello, I am Fatu and I am a cocoa farmer : a Digital Farmer Field School for training in cocoa production and certification in Sierra Leone

Witteveen, Loes; Goris, Margriet; Lie, Rico; Ingram, V.J.

doi:10.18174/376538

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“…These changes are due to growing social differentiation and inequalities between groups (such as on the basis of ethnicity, indigenous/migrant status, or gender) because of combinations of "wicked problems" and other factors. These include increasing poverty through fragmentation, decreasing farm sizes, and reduced land access in some areas; migration to urban areas confounding farm labour shortages and labour rights; climate change affecting crop production; market shocks with extreme fluctuations in commodity prices (Böwer, Geis, and Winkler 2007;Dupraz and Postolle 2013); violent conflicts and disease, such as the Ebola outbreaks in Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Democratic Republic of Congo (Figuié 2016;Maconachie et al 2006;Mitchell 2011;Witteveen et al 2016) and more recently COVID-19 (Arouna et al 2020; Siche 2020).…”

Section: Livelihoods Of Producer Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

West African food system resilience

Piters¹,

Nelen²,

Wennink³

et al. 2021

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Background and understanding food systems resilience Regional drivers of West Africa's food systems Regional organisations Agro-pastoralism-based food systems Grains-and-legumes-based food system Rice-and-horticulture-based food systems Coastal maritime fisheries food system Tropical mixed tree and food crops systems Toward enhanced resilience of West African food systems Background and understanding Regional drivers Regional organisations Agro-pastoralism-based Grains-and-legumes-based Rice-and-horticulture Coastal maritime fisheries Tropical mixed tree and food crops systems Toward enhanced resiliencePreface COVID-19 is an extreme event that we will remember for a lifetime. But it is by no means the only shock of our time that puts global food security under pressure. Climate change, the increase in pandemics due to animal disease transfer and biodiversity loss will further increase pressure on existing food systems. Resilient, sustainable food systems, striking a balance between social, economic and environmental impacts, must be the answer. And that requires a different approach than 'producing more food'; it requires thinking in systems thinking and 'producing food in a better way'.Early 2020 the World Bank and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs approached Wageningen University and Research with the question: How resilient are West African food systems and how to strengthen their resilience? The World Bank was in the process of developing a regional programme for that purpose and expressed its interests to Wageningen University & Research to obtain evidenced-based insights that could be used during its consultations and formulation. Wageningen University & Research quickly set up a dedicated team, and invited experts from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) and Mr. Joost Nelen to join.Diving into the world of West African food systems and their resilience does not provide one with a univocal answer to the questions raised by the World Bank. The systems prove to be very diverse and respond in very different ways to shocks such as provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas some systems show higher levels of resilience, others show important vulnerabilities to specific shocks. Income and power disparities between stakeholders in the systems, such as defined by gender differences, appear to be important, explaining why people's livelihoods are sometimes threatened, while other people have buffers and capacities to respond.

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Section: Livelihoods Of Producer Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%