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Climate Change in Africa
10th September 2014 14:00Welcome
14:15-16:15Problem definitions – various perspectivesModelling regime shifts in the Logone Flood-plain, Cameroon - Mark Moritz et al. (Columbus)´Conservation´ and the stigmatization of local practices. Disentangling environmental rhetoric in Cape Verde - Jelena Adeli (Bielefeld)Using Bayesian belief networks to analyse socio-ecological conditions for migration in the Sahel - Lukas Drees and Stefan Liehr (Frankfurt/ Main)
16:45-18:15Problem definitions – various perspectives (cont.)Social-science research and communication in the AMMA program - Arona Diedhiou et al. (Gre-noble)Children´s nutrition and nutrition-related health outcomes during periods of drought and seaso-nal food stress in Burkina Faso - Kristine Belesova (London)Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development strategies - experience from the Gambia - Hannes Lauer (Bonn)Climate change and adaptive capacity. The struggle for sustainable rural livelihoods in Northern Ghana - Joseph A. Yaro (Accra)
18:30-19:30Film ScreeningDisruption. Climate. Change.Produced and directed by Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott (52 min.)
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11th September 20149:00-10:30Political aspects of CCA and disaster risk reductionClimate change adaptation and politics in Burki-na Faso - Irit Eguavoen (Bonn)The institutional context of Disaster Risk Reduc-tion in African cities: Known unknowns - Senay Habtezion (Washington)Loss and damage from droughts and floods in rural Africa - Kees van der Geest and Koko Warner (Amsterdam/Bonn)
10:45-12.15Risk perception and social responsesFarmers´ perceptions of climate change and cli-mate variability versus climatic evidence in Bur-kina Faso, West Africa - Safiétou Sanfo et al. (Oua-gadougou)Conséquences perçues de la variabilité cli-matique sur les populations à Korhogo (Côte d´Ivoire) - Nadége Boko et al. (Abidjan)Rain makers, environmental change and contes-tation of the Gods of water among the Biali of North West Benin - Papa Sow (Bonn)
14:00-16.30Working Group 1: Building human resilience. Research, education and capacity development for emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction - Jörg Szarzynski et al. (Bonn) and Red Cross Germany/TogoWorking Group 2: Options for future cooperati-on among research projects in West and South Africa - Karen Greenough and William Fonta (Ou-agadougou)
16:45-18:15Working Group 2: continuedWorking Group 3: Transformative adaptation. The promise of hail in climate change challen-ges! (South Ethiopia) - Sabine Tröger (Bonn)
12th September 20149:00-10:30Livelihoods and aspirationsMigration in the Sahel. Between adaptation strat-egy to environmental change and individ-ual as-pirations - Victoria van der Land (Frankfurt/ Main)The impact of climate change interventions on seasonal migration in Ghana´s Upper East Regi-on. Development and adaptation or cause of so-cial conflict? - Sebastiaan Soeters (Utrecht)Transforming agriculture or rural society? Linking climate change adaptation and rural transformation in Africa - Wolfram Laube (Bonn)
10:45-12:15Challenges of pastoral and agricultural livelihoodsPastoralism under pressure in Burkina Faso and Ghana: Adapt or collapse? - Karen Greenough (Ouagadougou)Multiple challenges for farmers in northern Togo. Adaptation to climate change in the context of a green-revolution-like modernization of agricul-ture - Bernhard Martin (Halle)Value for the vulnerable? Agricultural sector & smallholder development in Ghana’s Upper East Region - Jan-Niklas Bamler (Bonn)
12:45Farewell
Venue: ZEF Conference RoomsOrganizing Team: [email protected]
Negotiations, translations, and socio-political implications
