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At the World Economic Forum headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, last week, Honoris United Universities (www.Honoris.net), the first and largest network
Human agency is seen as a critical component of adaptive capacity concerning environmental change. This capacity may entail social actor's ability to learn from past experience, and create opportunities in the present for dealing with uncertainty and change in the future. However, it also means that actors need to be able to overturn structural barriers that impede anticipatory adaptation to climate change such as lack of political leadership, power imbalances, acceptance of climate risks and willingness to act. While scholarship around questions of structural barriers is common in enviro...
Six hundred young Jamaican farmers and fishers across five parishes will benefit from support to bolster their enterprises and combat climate change under the pilot ‘Strengthening the Adaptive Capacity of Farmers and Fisherfolk in Jamaica’ project.
A pilot project to help young farmers and fishers in five of the island's parishes bolster their businesses and combat climate change was launched last Thursday at the Denbigh 4-H Training and Pro...
Six hundred young Jamaican farmers and fishers will benefit from support to bolster their enterprises and combat climate change