“Scaling up co-developed experimentations and Solutions for sustainability”.
on Monday, 17th of March (10 am-3 pm) at UNIL, Geopolis, Room 2238 Geopolis
Two SOR4D projects ENGAGE4Sundarbans and the SCALAGROteam members will join for a workshop to reflect on the scalability of experimental collective and agroecological farming.
The workshop has fostered an exchange between researchers and practitioners from India, Bangladesh, and Switzerland who work with local communities on the co-development of sustainable solutions to enhance social resilience.
It has aimed to reflect on the possibilities and limits of scaling up our SOR4D projects, taking into account the social, political, and economic contexts and constraints encountered in our living labs located in India, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, and Bolivia.
10h-11h: ENGAGE 4 Resilience in the Sundarbans
We have discussed, in particular, our conceptual framework of social resilience, our methods, and the solutions we put in place to support rural communities in our two coastal study areas of the Sundarbans, India and Bangladesh. Project: ENGAGE4Sundarbans
Our team has presented 2 papers at the Agroecology Science Days hosted by the University of Lausanne.
WORKSHOP 4: NOURISHING THE AGRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION BY EXPLORING LOCAL DYNAMICS AND NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS
Beyond preconceived positionalities in transdisciplinary research: ‘Inhabitant interviewers’ incubating agroecological transitions in the Indian Sundarbans Delta presented by EmilieCremin, UNIL, Abstract
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WORKSHOP 5: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS FOR AN INCLUSIVE AGRO-ECOLOGY – THE RIGHT TO FOOD, SOCIAL SECURITY FOR FOOD, ACCESS TO LAND
Governance of land under Shrimp farming in the coastal area of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta, presented by Emilie Cremin Abstract
The conference provides a platform for discussion and exchange around concrete examples of systems supported by the principles of agroecology, on both a small and large scale. It brings together the scientific community, local stakeholders, farmers, consumers, development agents, as well as decision-makers in governance bodies and international experts.
In September 2024, our ENGAGE4Sundarbans team organised a workshop at Kumirmari Bari with local stakeholders to investigate the possibilities of using canals as fisheries, to upscale our pond experiments. The participation of multiple local stakeholders opened the debate on the constraints and benefits provided by the extension of the fishery into canals. https://photos.app.goo.gl/DygdgbKpLFbwG8A3A
In September 2024, the ENGAGE4Sundarbans regional workshop aimed to join together our team members from India from IIT Kharagpur and the SJM village community, Bangladesh teams from SAJIDA Foundation and ULAB, and Switzerland UNIL, and exchange around our project with regional and international experts in the field of river sustainable development observed through arts and creativity. Understanding the river through the perceptions and the livelihoods of the inhabitants of the Sundarbans and supporting the communities in their agricultural entrepreneurship of fisheries and cropping to revert or resist to the multi-hazard risk has arisen as the main target of our project.
