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Ph.D. from the University of Hohenheim (Germany) with extensive experience in research and teaching in socio-ecological systems from the Global South. Background in research projects in resilience, sustainable development, conservation of natural resources and adaptation to climate change in the Amazon and the Colombian Andes and in Africa (Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania). Reseach published in high impact journals
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Publications (19)
Increasing climate variability affects crop and livestock production and therefore the livelihood of resource-dependent communities such as agro-pastoralists producing in drought-prone areas of Gaza province in southern Mozambique.
Adaptation involves a process of learning and development. Learning by experience follows cycles of action–reflection...
This paper presents an activity and knowledge analysis using second-order cybernetics for analysing human activities in social-ecological systems. We do this with the case of smallholder farmers producing milk in Nakuru County, Kenya. The analysis is based on farmers′ actions and the knowledge behind their actions. Using this approach, we analysed...
Although knowledge integration and co-production are integral to transdisciplinary approaches to foster sustainable change in social–ecological systems, this type of research is usually not evaluated based on assessments of the learning process. While participants are meant to be central in such approaches, too often, their perspectives are not cen...
While efforts are increasingly made to democratize research relationships, empower participants and include marginalised voices in agricultural research for development, it is acknowledged that power imbalances in knowledge creation remain integral to researcher-participant relations. Moreover, published results seldom report on the different dimen...
Transdisciplinary sustainability research (TDR) is characterised by methodologies that support a rich and direct interaction between academics and other societal stakeholders. However, it is not to be taken for granted that societal stakeholders are interested in collaboration, or that researchers have the skills to put participative methods into a...
In conventional agricultural research for development (AR4D) projects, decisions about rural innovation activities often rest with scientists. In transdisciplinary AR4D projects in Kenya and Tanzania, we designed a methodology aiming to give key decision-making rights to the farmer groups involved. Five collaborating groups were facilitated to expl...
When concerns for gender equality, social inclusion and indigenous knowledge are not considered, the development of technical or knowledge-based solutions to food insecurity are more likely to be ineffective. In this presentation, we aim to bring together insights from two AR4D projects to show how feminist approaches can complement transdisciplina...
With the intention of developing more democratic processes of knowledge production to support innovation processes, a critical methodological approach was developed within the frame of two transdisciplinary “research for development” projects in Kenya and Tanzania. In the discovery phase of the transdisciplinary projects, five smallholder farmer gr...
Small-scale milk traders in Kenya, who market the large majority of milk produced, are facing significant restrictions related to financial capital, knowledge, and political context. Reasons are that little is known about their system, neither in the research, nor in the political area. This explains why the 'informal' market, to which small-scale...
Although Nakuru County, Kenya is most known for Lake Nakuru National Park where tourists are awed by giraffes and rhinos, just outside the border of the park, the land is used by small-scale mixed dairy farms. Dairy is a vital component for sustaining rural livelihoods in this region, from smallholder dairy farmers to milk transporters and small-sc...
Although attention has been given to the importance of democratized research relationships, power imbalances in knowledge creation remain integral to researcher-participant relations in agricultural research and rural development. With the intention to co-produce knowledge for change with smallholder farmer groups, two transdisciplinary research pr...
Various reasons for postharvest-losses (PHL) along the milk value chain have been identified in scientific studies, whereby some, such as spillage and spoilage occur on farm and are described as resulting from “poor handling practices”. In order to support smallholder dairy farmers to reduce such losses, we use an actor-oriented approach, based on...
This paper aims to conceptualize collaborative learning methodologies used in
transdisciplinary research projects dealing with change in complex situations,
such as farming and food systems of developing countries. For this purpose we
propose a framework for understanding collaborative learning approaches
based on theoretical considerations and...
In 2009, Mabomo and Mungaze, two communities in Gaza Province, southern Mozambique, welcomed the idea of a small project – and were surprised when asked to participate in the design and implementation of a Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) system around it. This system has promoted learning and empowerment among the members of these two...
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Today, about one-third of the global food harvest goes to waste. This fact is so striking that it seems imperative to combine knowledge with practical expertise to work towards technological, social and economic innovations to reduce food losses, especially where food insecurity prevails for many people. The RELOAD project aims to improve knowledge, build capacities and develop technologies that help reduce post-harvest losses in Eastern Africa. Read more at www.reload-globe.net
