Recipes for Resilience: Engaging Caribbean Youth in Climate Action and Afrodescendant Food Heritage through Story Mapping and Song

RFR旨在激励加勒比青年重新评估非洲人后裔的食物遗产，以此作为适应气候和恢复能力的途径。我们将与我们的合作伙伴青年青年团以及受邀的加勒比和英属加勒比青年一起，收集、绘制地图并演唱非洲人后裔食物遗产的故事，包括过去和现在的故事，以及破坏社区韧性的气候威胁。我们将通过与我们的合作伙伴以及西印度群岛和爱丁堡大学的气候科学、民族植物学、加勒比海研究、地理和关键发展方面的研究人员共同创建的三个虚拟研讨会(W1-3)来实现这一点。活动：W1：我们的过去：我们将使用感官方法来触发对当地生产的食物的感觉、品尝和气味的情景记忆，参与者将把这些记忆带到W1。我们将探索这些食物从何而来，非洲后裔(和土著)食物遗产和农业食品做法的长期边缘化，以及对农业生物多样性和气候变化的影响。这个工作坊将加深学员对食物和气候遗产研究和感官方法的理解。它将附带一个信息包，用于对老年人进行感官口述历史采访；采访中的故事将被添加到加勒比海故事地图中(经同意)，并激发W3中共同创作的歌曲。W2：就在这里，现在：W2将发展参与者对气候适应、适应能力和正义研究的理解。通过在线棋盘游戏和有趣的学习，参与者将追溯加勒比海食物的来源。我们将通过识别位于全球故事地图上的种植园生产的成分(例如棕榈油)来反思我们的食物行为及其碳/生态足迹，并从学术工作中获得与年龄相适应的关于新世种植园的见解。通过角色扮演，我们将探索当今的情景，如该地区木薯种植者面临的挑战和复原力战略，以及未来粮食安全、气候适应性和气候正义的情景。参与者将被分配一项家庭活动，以确定他们在地图上最喜欢的故事。W3：我们的未来：我们将通过共同创作卡利普索、Soca、雷鬼、说唱和有声歌词歌曲来捕捉年轻人的心灵和思想，以及他们对更具弹性的未来的愿景。歌曲创作过程将受到从地图中挑选出来的故事的启发，由宋学院推动，并被录制到播客中。W3和研讨会后的制作将产生一首超级组合歌曲(所有参与者)和三首个人歌曲在W3结束时的比赛中被选中。安提瓜卡利普索乐队，燃烧的火焰，将被委托编写一个额外的卡利普索‘顺口溜’，利用地图上精选的故事。闭幕式：庆祝我们的故事：这将是对非洲后裔食物遗产、青年声音和关键气候行动信息的庆祝，将以最终定稿的歌曲开始和结束。在这里，年轻的参与者将有机会与加勒比海和全球的政策制定者、农民和公众分享他们通过粮食遗产采取的过去、现在和未来的气候行动之旅。我们将探索如何利用青年的观点来确定气候行动、气候风险理解方面的差距以及未来复原力建设的途径。我们将以通过社交媒体延续该项目势头的标签竞赛结束。工作坊将利用已经为PI的Sugaropolis项目开发的材料，并促进与她的糖业生活历史项目相关的研究，特别是利用表演和共同创造来创造包容的知识交流空间。项目成果(故事地图、歌曲、播客)将促进国际和平协会对加勒比种植园遗产和替代未来的研究，并加强国际和平协会、联合信息系统和咨询委员会之间正在进行的和未来的合作。

RfR aims to inspire Caribbean youth to revalue Afrodescendant food heritage as a pathway to climate adaptation and resilience. Together with our partners, the CYEN, and invited Caribbean and British Caribbean youth, we will collect, map, and sing about stories of Afrodescendant food heritage, past and present, and the climatic threats that undermine community resilience. We will do so through three virtual workshops (W1-3), co-created with our partners and with researchers in climate science, ethnobotany, Caribbean studies, geography, and critical development from the Universities of the West Indies and Edinburgh.Activities:W1: Our Past: We will use sensory methods to trigger episodic memories of feeling, tasting, and smelling locally-produced foods, which participants will bring with them to W1. We will explore where these foods come from, the long-term marginalisation of Afrodescendant (and Indigenous) food heritage and agri-food practices, and implications for agrobiodiversity and climate change. This workshop will develop participants' understanding of food and climate heritage research and sensory methods. It will be accompanied by an information pack for conducting sensory oral history interviews with elders; stories from the interviews will be added to a Caribbean story map (with consent) and inspire songs co-created in W3.W2: Right Here, Right Now: W2 will develop participants' understandings of climate adaptation, resilience and justice research. Using online board games and playful learning, participants will trace Caribbean foods back to their source. We will reflect on our food behaviours and their carbon/ecological footprints by identifying ingredients produced on plantations located on the global story map, e.g. palm oil, , with age-appropriate insights from scholarly work on the 'plantationocene'. Through role play we will explore present-day scenarios such as the challenges and resilience strategies of cassava farmers in the region, as well as future scenarios for a food secure, climate resilient, and climate just future. Participants will be assigned a home activity to identify their favourite stories on the maps.W3: Our Future: We will capture the hearts and minds of young people and their vision for a more resilient future through the co-creation of calypso, soca, reggae, rap and spoken word songs. The songwriting process will be inspired by stories selected from the maps, facilitated by the Song Academy and recorded into a podcast. W3 and post-workshop production will result in one supergroup song (all participants) and three individual songs selected in a competition at the end of W3. Antiguan calypso band, Burning Flames, will be commissioned to write an additional calypso 'jingle' that utilises selected stories from the map. Closing Ceremony: Celebrate Our Story: This will be a celebration of Afrodescendant food heritage, youth voice and key climate action messages, which will begin and end with the finalised songs. Here young participants will have the opportunity to share their journey from past, current, and future climate action through food heritage with policymakers, farmers, and publics across the Caribbean and globally. We will explore how youth perspectives can be used to identify climate actions, gaps in climate risk understandings, and pathways for future resilience building. We will close with a hashtag competition that continues the momentum of the project through social media.The workshops will utilise materials already developed for the PI's Sugaropolis project and advance research related to her Living Histories of Sugar project, particularly the use of performance and co-creation to engender inclusive spaces for knowledge exchange. Project outputs (story map, songs, podcast) will further the PI's research into plantation legacies and alternative futures in the Caribbean, and enhance ongoing and future collaborations between the PI, Co-Is and Advisory Board.