Amon Taruvinga
Country (Nationality)
South Africa
Grantee Title
Area of research: Agriculture and environmental economics.
Grantee Description
University of Fort Hare
Host institution: University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Area of research: Agriculture and environmental economics.
Research focus: Rural smallholder farmers’ vulnerability and adaptation strategies to climate change for the purpose of understanding the vulnerability status of rural smallholder farmers and factors that condition their vulnerability, and appraising rural smallholder farmer driven, user friendly and tried adaptation strategies to climate change and estimate factors (socio-economic, institutional, climatic) that influence such choices as potential barriers and incentives to adaptation.
The idea is to involve the masses of rural smallholder farmers as active stakeholders in defining their adaptation strategies to climate change based on their vulnerability status rather than prescribing “blue-print” adaptation strategies using an expert driven top-down approach.