Event Description
Climate change is intensifying risks to African smallholder agriculture, yet adaptation remains fragmented across early-warning systems, governance, climate finance, and production support, limiting farmers’ ability to act before shocks. This study investigates how institutional participation, climate-information access, financial inclusion, and production diversification interact to shape anticipatory capacity and adaptive responses. The study aims to develop and empirically examine the Anticipatory Equity Systems (AES) framework as an integrated approach to smallholder resilience. A convergent mixed-methods Participatory Action Research design combined 1,263 household surveys across 11 countries in West, East, Central, and Southern Africa with 21 focus-group discussions, 16 key-informant interviews, participatory co-design activities, and multivariable statistical analysis was used to investigate the problem. The results revealed substantial governance and access deficits with 27.1% respondents haven participated in climate-tool design and testing, 24.2% reported community input was considered during tool development, and 36.3% had received early warnings. Governance participation was associated with 83% higher odds of greater climate-information access, while farmers receiving early warnings had over four times higher odds of greater crop and livestock diversification.
Event Speaker
Lovees Ahfembombi, Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required for in-person and online attendance. For more information, please email Esteban Andrade at [email protected].
Hosted by the Columbia Climate School.
