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Cultivating through Crises: Empowering African Small-Holders through Histories of Creative Emergency Response (CCEASH)

  • Funded by Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  • Total publications:0 publications

Grant number: AH/V009281/1

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2021
    2021

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $175,017.48

  • Funder

    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

  • Principal Investigator

    N/A

  • Research Location

    United Kingdom

  • Lead Research Institution

    Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Other secondary impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Unspecified

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Other

Abstract

CCEASH aims to adopt a historiographical approach in order to demonstrate how smallholder farmers in Elgeyo-Marakwet County (EMC), Kenya, innovate and respond in times of crisis. The recent surge in desert locust swarms, allied to flooding and drought, across East Africa present an unprecedented urgent threat to local livelihoods, where failed harvests and crop destruction, coupled with pandemic-related collapse of global market chains, has raised concerns surrounding food shortages and impending economic collapse. In response to these crises, the Kenyan Ministry for Agriculture has called upon farmers and other stakeholders to rapidly intensify production (http://www.kilimo.go.ke/covid-19/). COVID-19