Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia

The agro-ecological knowledge held by Ovambo farmers in North Central Namibia has, for centuries, given them resilience to high levels of climate variability and associated impacts. New research, conducted in North Central Namibia, suggests that knowledge co-production between farmers and agricultur...

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Published in:	Global environmental change Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 761 - 770
Main Authors:	Newsham, Andrew J, Thomas, David S.G
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier Ltd 01-05-2011
Subjects:	Adaptation Adaptation to change Agriculture Climate Climate change farmers Farming farming systems Farms Indigenous knowledge labor Namibia Resilience Namibia
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Summary:	The agro-ecological knowledge held by Ovambo farmers in North Central Namibia has, for centuries, given them resilience to high levels of climate variability and associated impacts. New research, conducted in North Central Namibia, suggests that knowledge co-production between farmers and agricultural extension workers may, in addition, strengthen adaptive capacity to future climate change. However, this useful kind of knowledge co-production is far from automatic, and indeed the conditions which make it more likely to happen are not well understood. This paper explores agro-ecological knowledge in North Central Namibia as adaptive capacity, and suggests avenues for better conceptualising and understanding the conditions for adaptive capacity-enhancing knowledge co-production.
Bibliography:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.12.003 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-1
ISSN:	0959-3780 1872-9495
DOI:	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.12.003