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Keep in touch with local and international events on building resilience in the Horn of Africa and further afield, as well as the latest news from the Technical Consortium.

  • NEWS

    Shaping the future of the Technical Consortium: Members meet in Washington DC

    01 April 2015

    On January 12-13, members of the Technical Consortium for Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa (TC) gathered for a planning meeting hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Washington, DC. The meeting provided a platform to discuss ongoing research and activities related to strengthening resilience in the Horn of Africa, as well as prioritize activities for 2015 and revise the consortium’s work plans and work streams. The members also discussed ideas for future research, activities and partnerships.

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    IFPRI 2020 International Conference: Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security.

    15 May 2014 | 09:00
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the Sheraton Addis Hotel

    The IFPRI 2020 Conference, held May 15-17, 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the Sheraton Addis Hotel, brings together policymakers, practitioners and scholars to discuss how resilience can be strengthened for food and nutrition security.

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    Resilience 2014

    14 May 2014

    To encourage wide-ranging debate on the transformation, adaptation and development of societies in the face of change, Resilience 2014 aimed to strengthen and explore the links between the many examples and visions of the resilience of our societies and their environment, whether they come from the academic world or the world of development.

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    Technical Consortium further develops spatial tool as means of measuring resilience in Horn of Africa

    14 May 2014

    In order to enhance measurement of resilience, and to better understand and target interventions that will enhance resilience, the Technical Consortium is developing a pilot spatial tool.

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Resilience 2014

14 May 2014

Theme: Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation

To encourage wide-ranging debate on the transformation, adaptation and development of societies in the face of change, Resilience 2014 aimed to strengthen and explore the links between the many examples and visions of the resilience of our societies and their environment, whether they come from the academic world or the world of development. The resilience of a social and ecological system (SES) refers to the way in which societies and their environment adapt or change in response to climate, economic and social change, including financial and food crises.

Some of the questions tackled by Resilience 2014:

  • To what extent can an SES adapt? When does disruption become too extreme and generate trigger irreversible changes?
  • Conversely, how can an SES transform itself and change development track so as to escape from an undesirable situation, such as poverty traps?
  • Is the resilience of some the resilience of others?
  • What role do knowledge and skills play in these processes?

Resilience 2014 is organized by the “French node” of the Resilience Alliance network (CIRAD – CNRS – IRSTEA- INRA), Agropolis International and their partners of the campus of Montpellier, and built on the highly successful first two conferences in Stockholm and in Phoenix.

For more information, visit www.resilience2014.org