Innovative approaches to climate adaptation

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Innovative approaches in climate adaptation

Jacob van Etten

(and many others)

Agrobiodiversity to manage risks and empower the poorInternational Conference Rome, Italy, 27-29 April 2015

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Can we overcome barriers to

diversity and accelerate

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Citizen science (also known as crowd science, crowdsourcedscience, civic science or networked science) is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists.

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Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.

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Jacob van Etten & Lluis Calderer (2015)

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1. Local learning has been fostered andaccelerated

2. Reliable, generalizable results havebeen obtained

3. Reduced costs comparing to otherparticipatory approaches

4. Simple nature of field experimentsmake upscaling possible

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1. ClimMob.net, a user-friendlyinformation platform to be launchedmid-2015 – GxE analysis

2. Input retail: suitable business models

3. Building capacity for implementation

4. Observe other variables and evaluatemore options / species

5. Target technological domains basedon needs analysis (farming systems,household analysis, nutrition)

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