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Testing the influence of radio programs on climate change knowledge
This working paper sheds light on the impact of radio programs on the climate change knowledge of local populations in the Congo Basin. We provide an assessment of the change in knowledge of a rural village in the Congo Basin after inhabitants listened to one of the radio programs that were prepared on climate change. The document also provides potential indicators for result up-scaling. After applying a micro-economic model to a casecontrol experiment, both before and after exposure to one radio program, the results show an increase in knowledge of 22.3% attributable to the radio program. In addition, a series of reactions were recorded from different end users, such as other media, ministries, NGO representatives and researchers, who reacted positively to the broadcasts. We recommend the use of radio programs to increase knowledge and induce behavioral changes with regard to climate change adaptation and mitigation
Communicating climate change through radio programs in the Congo Basin: A guide to the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of science-policy dialogue radio programs
Updated information on climate change are lacking in the Congo basin. Moreover, available data are worded in a coded language that impairs their use in decision-making and thus contributes to increase the gap between the information available at the global level and those circulating in the region. This work aimed at assessing the mechanisms of dissemination of scientific information in Central Africa in order to adopt the information channels and languages adapted to various stakeholders, according to their abilities and needs. It is in this context that radio platforms bringing together scientists, policy makers and the public have emerged in 2013 and 2014 in Cameroon and Congo.
Gender and Forests
This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes. Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women’s attitudes toward conservation, to a combined qualitative / quantitative international comparative study on REDD+, to a longitudinal examination of oil palm and gender roles over time in Kalimantan. Issues are examined across scales, from the household to the nation state and the global arena; and reach back to the past to inform present and future considerations. The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.
Changement climatique dans le Bassin du Congo
Ce document présente létat des lieux des informations et connaissances sur le changement climatique échangées entre acteurs dans quatre pays du Bassin du Congo, à savoir au Cameroun, au Congo, au Gabon et en République démocratique du Congo. Il ressort de cette étude les observations suivantes : la REDD + et plus particulièrement le MNV sont au centre des discussions concernant la réduction des émissions de CO2 du fait de leurs liens avec les politiques forestières;ladaptation est dominée par lévaluation de la vulnérabilité des communautés locales et, dans une moindre mesure, des systèmes naturels;les politiques et pratiques dadaptation des communautés et des écos...
Communiquer par la radio sur les changements climatiques dans le bassin du Congo
Les informations actualisées sur les changements climatiques manquent dans le bassin du Congo. De plus, les données disponibles sont formulées dans un langage codé qui entrave leur utilisation dans la prise de décisions, contribuant ainsi à renforcer lécart entre les informations disponibles au niveau mondial et celles circulant dans la région. Il était urgent de revoir les mécanismes de dissémination des informations scientifiques et dadopter des canaux dinformation et des langages adaptés aux différents interlocuteurs, en fonction de leurs besoins et de leurs capacités. Cest dans cette optique que des plateformes radiophoniques regroupant les scientifiques, les politi...
Implementing REDD+ and adaptation to climate change in the Congo Basin
This report presents the state of progress of projects and initiatives to promote adaptation and REDD+ in the Congo Basin region and it analyses opportunities for synergies or trade-off between the two strategies. 94 national programs and activities on the ground related to REDD+ and 11 on adaptation have been identified in six countries of the Congo Basin.
Guide de cartographie participative géoréférencée pour la gestion communautaire du terroir
La connaissance des terroirs villageois et des types doccupation des terres est primordiale pour réaliser les scénarios de référence dans le cadre des projets qui entendent bénéficier des payements pour services environnementaux. Dans ce contexte, la cartographie participative a fait ses preuves en tant quoutil de facilitation de la participation populaire dans la mesure où elle permet aux populations locales de sexprimer et de représenter les activités et les types dutilisation des terres de leur terroir. Plus encore, la cartographie participative dite géoréférencée permet non seulement de positionner les objets en relation avec les coordonnées spatiales (GPS) mais aussi de numériser ces données afin de ressortir un rendu validé et utilisable par toutes les parties prenantes. Si lutilité de ce type doutil est de plus en plus reconnue, des difficultés demeurent quant au protocole de sa réalisation.
Knowing - Unknowing
This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relational, and personal aspects of knowing and unknowing we work towards a greater multiplicity of knowledges and practices. Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary volume explores what a decolonial horizon could entail for African Studies at the crossroads. Contributors are Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Eric A. Anchimbe, Edwin Asa Adjei, Susan Arndt, Muyiwa Falaiye, Katharina Greven, Christine Hanke, Amanda Hlengwa, Catherine Kiprop, Elísio Macamo, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Lena Naumann, Thando Njovane, Samuel Ntewusu, Anthony Okeregbe, Zandisiwe Radebe, Elelwani Ramugondo, Eleanor Schaumann
Engendering Climate Change
This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability. The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressures, including the increase in women’s work burdens both in production and reproduction on gender relations. It also examines coping mechanisms such as male migration and the formation of women’s collectives which create space for agency and change in rigid social relations. The volume looks at perspectives from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to present the nuances of gender relations across borders along with similarities and differences across geographical,socio-cultural and policy contexts. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, development, gender, economics, environmental studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for policymakers, NGOs and think tanks working in the areas of gender, climate change and development.
Global Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change
This book explores the link between climate change and resiliency on each continent of the world. It reviews how climate change affects populations, not only through environmental exposures and health outcomes, but how people live their lives. Zolnikov brings together a set of experts to offer a novel perspective on understanding climate change vulnerability alongside adaption measures being implemented. Each chapter includes an overview on how climate change will affect that continent alongside current adaptation, mitigation, and policies that seek to improve population outcomes. As a whole, the book explores why a “one size fits all” approach to promote climate change resiliency does not work; however, a global perspective can facilitate people learning from one another and facing climate change together.
