ADAPTiVE: Adaptation to climate change to improve food safety and livelihoods among pastoral communities in Kenya

Despite growing focus on the climate change-food security nexus, the climate change-food safety nexus remains understudied.

The ADAPTiVE project addresses four research gaps:

(1) Limited knowledge of how climate change affects food safety hazards in Kenya’s dairy value chain, actors’ awareness, and livelihood impacts.

(2) Lack of insight into smallholder women farmers’ awareness, constraints, and preferences for adaptation strategies for climate-induced food safety and spoilage.

(3) No evidence of adaptation strategies’ effects on food safety, spoilage, and livelihoods of smallholder female farmers in ASAL.

(4) Limited understanding of scalable climate-robust food safety practices in dairy.

Using Kenya as a case study, the project integrates social and natural sciences, supports four PhDs, and develops knowledge dissemination channels.

• Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen

• Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)

• University of Nairobi (UoN)

• Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

• Karare Women Dairy Cooperative (KWDC)

WP1: identifies the most prevalent Food safety hazards along the Kenyan farm-to-fork dairy value chain, assesses how these are impacted by climate change, determines actors’ awareness of these impacts, analyses gendered barriers and explores actors’ climate change adaptation strategies.

WP2: Investigates factors determining food safety behavior under climate change, and elicits female farmers’ preferences for alterantive food safety-oriented climate change adaptation strategies.

WP3: Designs and tests specific climate change adaptation strategies for improved food safety, livelihoods under climate change.

WP4: Facilitates research capacity building, assesses stakeholders’ preferencs for climate change adapted dairy products, and develops scalable climate change adaptation strategies applicable to the Kenyan informal dairy sector in pastoral communities.

WP5: Manages the overall project activities.

• Nanna Roos (KU-NEXS)

• John Kinyuru (JKUAT)

• Samuel Imathiu (JKUAT)

• Eucabeth Majiwa (JKUAT)

• Salome Bukachi (UoN)

• Monicah Maichomo (KALRO)

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