Food Insecurity at the Time of Climate Change: Sharing and Learning from Bottom-Up Responses in the Caribbean Region

气候变化时期的粮食不安全：加勒比地区自下而上的应对措施的分享和学习

• 批准号: AH/T004355/1
• 负责人: Jessica Paddock
• 金额: $ 22.7万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT004355%2F1
• 关键词: Food; Insecurity; Time; Climate; Change

For the Greater Caribbean states - especially Small Island Developing States (SIDS) - climate change is re-shaping the relationship between land and people. Recent storms have wiped out the entire sugar cane production of Cuba, banana plantations in Jamaica, St Lucia and Dominica, and decimated nutmeg exports from Grenada, while the decrease in rainfall has in some cases destroyed entire food crops. Furthermore, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) - a grouping of twenty countries in the region - states that over 90% of its food is imported, which makes them vulnerable to sudden economic, political, and environmental shocks, wherein their food supplies can be suspended for indeterminable periods of time, making this region food insecure. Here, top-down interventions have typically paid little attention to the history of the interaction between people and nature, with the unintended consequence of neglecting and erasing the cultural memory and the heritage represented by centuries of collective and bottom up forms of land and maritime resource management. This is particularly problematic in cases involving indigenous communities, women, elder people and the young generations, along with minority ethnic communities with strong connections to the land, where there is the added burden of living with the legacy of colonialism and transatlantic slavery, upon which these economies are built. Indeed, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is on oft cited, but rarely acknowledged barrier to policy making around agricultural development in the region and the construction of resilient and sustainable food systems consistent with fostering the welfare and equitable socio-economic development for all.In response, our partnership brings together four academic partners and grass-roots civil society organisations across 5 countries in the Greater Caribbean region: McChesney George Secondary School in Antigua and Barbuda; the Library of African and Indigenous Studies in Belize; the Raizal Youth Organisation in the Archipelago de San Andres, Colombia; the Bernard Lodge Farmer's Association in Jamaica; the Fidecomiso of the Caño Martin Peña Community Land Trust in Puerto Rico. Each partner has specific expertise, ongoing projects and a vision for their future.The work of this multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary partnership will comprise:1. The running of the five workshops in each of the five countries. These will be organised, led, and hosted by the local communities with support from the two local Research Assistants and the academic partners. Workshops will comprise the face-face knowledge co-production component of the partnership through the sharing of local histories and experiences of food insecurity in the face of environmental changes, as well as their locally embedded solutions. Best practices will be identified, mapped and their reproduction collectively discussed. 2. The website - regularly updated and monitored by the two RA's - serves as a tool to share data and serves as a platform for ongoing engagement by participants after the workshops, which will facilitate ongoing analysis and interpretation of insights generated.3. Expand the network via the workshops and the website: reach out and engage more communities within the countries involved in the existing partnership, and to further communities in other Greater Caribbean countries not involved in this partnership. 4. Map the regulatory framework and policy environment of each country as the basis upon which to begin incorporating workshop data into policy relevant insights.5. Develop policy briefs based on findings of workshops and ongoing knowledge co-production. Diffusion to relevant policy makers through direct engagement in the workshops and indirectly with the help of 'Policy Bristol' and the preparation of policy briefs. 6. Publishing academic research on both the process of the partnership's establishment and the knowledge co-produce

对于大加勒比国家，特别是小岛屿发展中国家（SIDS），气候变化正在重塑土地与人之间的关系。最近的风暴摧毁了古巴的全部甘蔗生产，摧毁了牙买加、圣卢西亚和多米尼加的香蕉种植园，摧毁了格林纳达的肉豆蔻出口，而降雨量的减少在某些情况下摧毁了整个粮食作物。此外，加勒比共同体（CARICOM）-该地区的20个国家-指出，其90%以上的粮食是进口的，这使得他们容易受到突然的经济，政治和环境冲击，其中他们的粮食供应可能会在不确定的时间内暂停，使该地区的粮食不安全。 在这方面，自上而下的干预措施通常很少关注人与自然之间互动的历史，其意外后果是忽视和抹去了几个世纪以来集体和自下而上的土地和海洋资源管理形式所代表的文化记忆和遗产。这在涉及土著社区、妇女、老年人和年轻一代的情况下尤其成问题，沿着的还有与土地有着密切联系的少数族裔社区，因为这些社区的经济是建立在殖民主义和跨大西洋奴隶制的遗产之上的，而这些社区又承受着额外的负担。事实上，跨大西洋贩卖奴隶的遗留问题经常被提及，但很少被承认，这是围绕该区域农业发展和建设符合促进所有人的福利和公平社会经济发展的有复原力和可持续的粮食系统的政策制定的障碍。我们的伙伴关系汇集了大加勒比地区5个国家的四个学术合作伙伴和基层民间社会组织：安提瓜和巴布达McChesney乔治中学;伯利兹非洲和土著研究图书馆;哥伦比亚圣安德烈斯群岛Raizal青年组织;牙买加Bernard Lodge农民协会;波多黎各Caño Martin Peña社区土地信托基金Fidecomiso。每个合作伙伴都有自己的专业知识、正在进行的项目和对未来的愿景。这种多学科和跨学科的合作伙伴关系的工作将包括：1.在五个国家中的每一个国家举办五个讲习班。这些将由当地社区组织，领导和主办，并得到两名当地研究助理和学术合作伙伴的支持。讲习班将包括伙伴关系的面对面知识共同制作部分，通过分享当地历史和面对环境变化的粮食不安全经验，以及当地的解决办法。将确定、规划最佳做法，并集体讨论如何推广这些做法。2.该网站由两个区域协调机构定期更新和监测，是分享数据的工具，也是研讨会后与会者持续参与的平台，这将有助于持续分析和解释所产生的见解。通过讲习班和网站扩大网络：在参与现有伙伴关系的国家内接触和吸引更多的社区，并进一步扩大未参与这一伙伴关系的其他大加勒比国家的社区。4.绘制每个国家的监管框架和政策环境图，作为开始将研讨会数据纳入政策相关见解的基础。根据讲习班的结论和正在进行的知识共同制作，编写政策简报。通过直接参与讲习班和间接在“政策布里斯托”的帮助下以及编写政策简报，向有关决策者传播。6.出版关于合作伙伴关系建立过程和知识共同生产的学术研究

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• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Barreto-Sanchez, D.E.