Institutional challenges to climate change adaptation: A case study on policy action gaps in Uganda
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Dr. Edidah L. Ampaire is a Sociologist working for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Uganda. She currently leads the Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation Project, an initiative of the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which seeks to inform national and local level institutions for the adoption of climate-resilient and gender responsive agri-food policies in Uganda and Tanzania. She is particularly interested in gender responsive development. Her current research focuses on gender inclusive policy development, public policy implementation processes and farmer based organizations.
Dr. Laurence Jassogne is a Systems Agronomist at IITA and is the contact point for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food security program (CCAFS) of IITA. She investigates trade-offs and synergies in climate change adaptation and mitigation in coffee and cocoa systems. She has previously worked on soil conservation and tropical and sub-tropical agriculture and has a PhD in natural and agricultural sciences..
Ms. Providence Happy is a Research Assistant at IITA. She is charged with responsibilities of designing data collection instruments, data collection, analysis and reporting. She has interest in environmental and natural resource economics, specifically natural resources management. She is currently facilitating participatory action research in formulating byelaws for sustainable crop intensification with districts and lower local governments in Uganda.
Ms. Mariola Acosta is a PhD candidate at the Strategic Communication Group of Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and a Gender Research Fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Uganda. An agronomist by background, her research interest focuses on gender relations in climate-smart agriculture and gender-sensitive climate change policy-making. She is also the co-founder of the Global AgroEcology Alliance (GAEA) and acts a YPARD focal point for the Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR).
Dr. Jennifer Twyman is an agricultural economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia. Her research focus is on gender within the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS). She is currently conducting research regarding gender differences in the vulnerabilities to climate change and appropriate adaptation strategies.
Dr. Leigh Winowiecki is a Soil Systems Scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her research focuses on landscape-scale assessments of soil and land health, developing soil organic carbon stock accounting methodologies and assessing socio-ecological drivers of productivity and land degradation across diverse landscapes. She is involved in implementing global assessments of ecosystem health through the Sentinel Landscapes Initiative of CGIAR, Climate Smart Agriculture within CCAFS and the potential of land restoration to increase food security and farming system resilience.
Dr. Piet van Asten is Head Agronomy at Olam Coffee, providing technical support to plantations and outgrower schemes across the tropics. Piet holds a PhD in agronomy from Wageningen University with a strong focus on soil science, crop production, farming systems, smallholder producers, technology adoption and sustainable development. He has worked for the CGIAR (i.e. Africa Rice and IITA) from 1998-2016 as an award-winning scientist on sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in the tropics. He published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and successfully supervised over 30 post-graduate students.