Community engagement enabled Jessica Eise to boost the relevance of her research. Here are her six tips for how to do this.
. Although they are experienced farmers who often have the wisdom of generations of coffee farming in their families, they do not have the support that they need to overcome the challenges presented by climate change. They need more information, institutional support and financial stability., a website that aims to support these farmers by addressing their interests and the political and economic pressures they face.
To put together practical advice for the farmers, my team and I took the standard academic approach: we searched the literature. We found an abundance of academic articles on climate change and agriculture in Colombia and its implications, along with data and figures on how much worse the problem is likely to become. For instance, we could show long-term predictions on annual temperatures over the next several years, or the expected increase in rain by 2100.
Calls for more engaged scholarship to help tackle urgent and relevant problems and concerns are not new. Neither is the co-creation of knowledge and solutions to link the academic world with the public. Yet engaged scholarship isn’t the priority it needs to be if scientists are to support people in dire crises.
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