EAGER: Clima y Cafe: A Climate Change Adaptation Website for Policy and Production Decision-Making Support in Colombian Agriculture

EAGER：Clima y Cafe：为哥伦比亚农业提供政策和生产决策支持的气候变化适应网站

• 批准号: 2037677
• 负责人: Jessica Eise
• 金额: $ 7.11万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2037677&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Clima; Cafe; Climate; Change

All communities do not have equal access to digital tools due to poverty, poor infrastructure, and lack of education. This is referred to as the digital divide—that is, a gap that exists between people and regions who have access to and are able to use modern information and communication technology and those who cannot. The goal of this project is to learn how we can overcome the digital divide through strategies that encourage online-to-offline sharing within local communities. The research focuses on a newly deployed website (Clima y Café) which is tailored towards Colombian coffee farmers. The project engages with the local community (i.e., local coffee grower associations with internet access) to disseminate digital information to hard-to-reach rural coffee farmers. The project will test four strategies that encourage these associations to engage in information-sharing activities of online content from the Clima y Café website and reduce the barriers of the digital divide that prevent the majority of coffee farmers from gaining access to information. The goal is to provide a novel assessment of the role of communication in constructing affordances to support policy decision-making around complex scientific issues and build a grounded theory from the data that can inform the creation of better digital affordances in other adaptation of complex scientific contexts.This project focuses specifically on addressing the capacity of communication to support climate change adaptation policy and production decision-making for Colombian coffee sector stakeholders. In 2020, the project team launched a digital platform tailored to the Colombian coffee sector to support climate change adaptation. Many farming communities, including Colombian coffee farmers, struggle with digital access, which can prevent much-needed information from reaching them. As such, one of the primary strategies was to leverage a previously identified social network strength, which are self-organizing local coffee-grower associations who have internet access, to serve as a conduit to hard-to-reach farmer populations without internet. This project seeks to uncover whether leveraging internet-access points within a community (local coffee-grower associations) and encouraging them to disseminate information across the digital divide will contribute to local engagement and information spread. This research will test four strategies to see if, how and why they do or do not lead to digital divide bridging affordances in local self-organizing associations to farmers. The four strategies include: (1) WhatsApp video messages, (2) targeted radio segments, (3) in-person small group trainings, and (4) social media engagement (Facebook + Instagram). The work will inform the development of novel models for disseminating digital information to hard-to-reach populations by utilizing the network strengths of their own local communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

由于贫困、基础设施差和缺乏教育，所有社区都不能平等地获得数字工具。这被称为数字鸿沟--即在能够使用和能够使用现代信息和通信技术的人和地区与那些不能使用现代信息和通信技术的人和地区之间存在的鸿沟。这个项目的目标是了解我们如何通过鼓励当地社区内线上到线下共享的战略来克服数字鸿沟。这项研究的重点是一个新部署的网站(气候咖啡馆)，该网站是为哥伦比亚咖啡种植者量身定做的。该项目与当地社区(即有互联网接入的当地咖啡种植者协会)接触，向难以接触到的农村咖啡种植者传播数字信息。该项目将测试四项战略，鼓励这些协会参与来自气候咖啡馆网站的在线内容的信息共享活动，并减少阻碍大多数咖啡种植者获得信息的数字鸿沟的障碍。其目标是对通信在构建支持围绕复杂科学问题的政策决策的负担方面的作用提供一种新的评估，并从数据中建立一个扎根的理论，该理论可以为在其他复杂科学背景的适应中创造更好的数字负担提供信息。该项目具体侧重于解决通信能力，以支持哥伦比亚咖啡行业利益攸关方的气候变化适应政策和生产决策。2020年，项目组推出了一个为哥伦比亚咖啡行业量身定做的数字平台，以支持气候变化适应。许多农业社区，包括哥伦比亚的咖啡种植者，都在为数字接入而苦苦挣扎，这可能会阻止他们获得急需的信息。因此，主要战略之一是利用之前确定的社交网络优势，即能够接入互联网的自组织当地咖啡种植者协会，作为没有互联网的难以接触到的农民人口的渠道。该项目旨在揭示利用社区内的互联网接入点(当地咖啡种植者协会)并鼓励他们跨越数字鸿沟传播信息是否有助于当地的参与和信息传播。这项研究将测试四种战略，看看它们是否、如何以及为什么会导致或不会导致数字鸿沟缩小当地自组织协会对农民的负担。这四个战略包括：(1)WhatsApp视频消息，(2)有针对性的广播片段，(3)面对面的小组培训，(4)社交媒体参与(Facebook+Instagram)。这项工作将利用当地社区的网络优势，为开发向难以接触到的人群传播数字信息的新模式提供信息。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。