Poster-Session: Reducing Subsistence Farmers' Vulnerability to Climate Change
Subsistence farmers are among the most vulnerable to current climate variability due to their overall lack of income, access to markets, lack of information and technology and thus their ability to cope with weather extremes. Agroforestry, or the intentional use of trees in the cropping system, has been proposed by many development practitioners as a potential strategy to help farmers reduce their vulnerability to climate change.
Subsistence farmers are among the most vulnerable to current climate variability due to their overall lack of income, access to markets, lack of information and technology and thus their ability to cope with weather extremes. Agroforestry, or the intentional use of trees in the cropping system, has been proposed by many development practitioners as a potential strategy to help farmers reduce their vulnerability to climate change.
The poster-session, Reducing Subsistence Farmers' Vulnerability to Climate Change: Evaluating the Potential Contributions of Agroforestry in Western Kenya, explores whether and, if so, how agroforestry techniques can help subsistence farmers reduce their vulnerability to climate change. The poster-session will be held by Tannis Thorlakson and Henry Neufeldt.