Innovation shared is resilience built: farmer to farmer knowledge sharing and adapting to climatic change.

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dc.contributor.authorRoessler, Hannah Maia
dc.contributor.supervisorVolpe, John
dc.contributor.supervisorStephenson, Peter H.
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-15T21:15:55Z
dc.date.available2013-01-15T21:15:55Z
dc.date.copyright2012en_US
dc.date.issued2013-01-15
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Environmental Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractDoes digitally-mediated farmer-to-farmer learning facilitate farm-level adaptation to climate change? Utilizing semi-structured interviews with small-scale organic farmers in the Cascadia Bioregion, I document how farmers perceive climate change and in what ways they are responding and/or adapting to these changes. Such small-scale farms have limited economic capacity to adapt to climate change. Access to innovative, low-cost but locally relevant solutions will require novel knowledge-dissemination mechanisms. A modern option is “participatory media” - a social network based approach, linking farmers to farmers through internet-exchange of photos and video. This project engages in a “bottom-up” approach to the development and sharing of knowledge. In collaboration with local farmers, I explored the efficacy of a participatory media method in moving towards improving farmers’ perception of and adaptation to climate change, as well as overall farm-level resilience.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4420
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectadaptive strategiesen_US
dc.subjectparticipatory videoen_US
dc.subjectfarmer to farmer learningen_US
dc.subjectresilienceen_US
dc.subjectclimatic changesen_US
dc.titleInnovation shared is resilience built: farmer to farmer knowledge sharing and adapting to climatic change.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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