Carla Roncoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 750149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Roncoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Roncoli |
| SIGNATURE | RONCOLI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9566-6790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Climate change and food production in Africa
Climate change introduces new uncertainties and complexities to already stressed and precarious agricultural systems in Africa. While extreme climate events, such as droughts and flood, dominate the headlines, gradual shifts in climate conditions, such as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall severely affect crop and livestock production in many African countries. We analyze records from two databases to identify how those shifts affect Afr…
Adaptation bricolage
A growing body of adaptation literature focuses on community resistance, a phenomenon whereby local people reject external interventions aimed at bolstering adaptation and/or resilience. While this is often considered as “adaptation failure” by development agencies, it may reflect a more complex reality. In this Viewpoint article, we engage an adaptation bricolage lens to examine a set of case studies of externally introduced adaptation in agricu…
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Data Availability Principles and Practice
Denotes content that is immediately available upon publication as open access.© 2020 American Meteorological Society. For information regarding reuse of this content and general copyright information, consult the AMS Copyright Policy (www.ametsoc.org/PUBSReuseLicenses)
Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions
Adaptation Pathways have emerged as promising approaches for exploring sequences of actions to address challenges in uncertain conditions. This study elaborates on how pathway approaches operate in practice by applying a learning framework that identifies guiding propositions for successful adaptation pathways. The framework is used to analyze a transformative scenario planning case study from rural Mali. Findings confirm that adaptation pathways…
Waterworlds
Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya
Growing food, growing a movement
Indigenous climate knowledge in southern Uganda
Farmers in southern Uganda seek information to anticipate the interannual variability in the timing and amount of precipitation, a matter of great importance to them since they rely on rain-fed agriculture for food supplies and income. The four major components of their knowledge system are: (1) longstanding familiarity with the seasonal patterns of precipitation and temperature, (2) a set of local traditional climate indicators, (3) observation …
Forecast Skill and Farmers’ Skills
During the last 10 yr, research on seasonal climate forecasts as an agricultural risk management tool has pursued three directions: modeling potential impacts and responses, identifying opportunities and constraints, and analyzing risk communication aspects. Most of these approaches tend to frame seasonal climate forecasts as a discrete product with direct and linear effects. In contrast, the authors propose that agricultural management is a perf…
Introduction to symposium on rethinking farmer participation in agricultural development
Cultural styles of participation in farmers’ discussions of seasonal climate forecasts in Uganda
Participatory Models and Exclusionary Frames in Water Management
Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers responses to climate predictions
CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 33:81-99 (2006) - doi:10.3354/cr033081 Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers' responses to climate predictions Carla Roncoli* Center for Research on Environmental Decisions and South East Climate Consortium, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 3…
Communication and mental processes
Reading the Rains
This article describes how farmers of Burkina Faso predict seasonal rainfall and examines how their forecasts relate to those produced by meteorological science. Farmers' forecasting knowledge encompasses shared and selective repertoires. Most farmers formulate expectations from observation of natural phenomena. Cultural and ritual spiritualists also predict rainfall from divination, visions, and dreams. Rather than positing local and scientific …
The costs and risks of coping with drought
This paper analyzes the responses enacted by families of the Central Plateau in Burkina Faso during the year that followed a severe drought in 1997. We illustrate the agro-ecological and socio-economic contexts that shape livelihood options and constraints in an area characterized by high levels of climatic risk and low natural resource endowment. A description of farmers' perceptions and official accounts identifies key criteria whereby farmers …
Can Farmers of Burkina Faso Use Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts
In this article we bring anthropological reflections to bear on a recent event we participated in, whereby farmers and scientists came together to discuss the possibility of applying rainfall seasonal forecasts to improve agricultural production and livelihood security in West Africa. In so doing, We also report on the research findings from the project that organized this encounter and that we have been working with for the last three years. Our…
Global Science, Local Practice
Environmental concerns during the 1990s were dominated by the question of global warming, which may indeed become the central theme in development politics in the coming millennium. As we are going to press, more than 100 developed and developing countries are involved in rounds of talks surrounding the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement reached in 1997 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seeking to avert or re…
Visions and Voices of Donsin
Few technologies have been as misused as cameras in the encounter with the "other." Photography has provided travelers, journalists, and, indeed, anthropologists with a tool to bring distant cultures and landscapes closer to home audiences. Entailing a process of selective framing and focusing, it has enabled practitioners to construct views of "exotic" people and worlds, building upon preconceived ideas about what they are like and how they diff…
Communication and mental processes
Reading the Rains
This article describes how farmers of Burkina Faso predict seasonal rainfall and examines how their forecasts relate to those produced by meteorological science. Farmers' forecasting knowledge encompasses shared and selective repertoires. Most farmers formulate expectations from observation of natural phenomena. Cultural and ritual spiritualists also predict rainfall from divination, visions, and dreams. Rather than positing local and scientific …
Cultural styles of participation in farmers’ discussions of seasonal climate forecasts in Uganda
Growing food, growing a movement
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions
Adaptation Pathways have emerged as promising approaches for exploring sequences of actions to address challenges in uncertain conditions. This study elaborates on how pathway approaches operate in practice by applying a learning framework that identifies guiding propositions for successful adaptation pathways. The framework is used to analyze a transformative scenario planning case study from rural Mali. Findings confirm that adaptation pathways…
Visions and Voices of Donsin
Few technologies have been as misused as cameras in the encounter with the "other." Photography has provided travelers, journalists, and, indeed, anthropologists with a tool to bring distant cultures and landscapes closer to home audiences. Entailing a process of selective framing and focusing, it has enabled practitioners to construct views of "exotic" people and worlds, building upon preconceived ideas about what they are like and how they diff…
Can Farmers of Burkina Faso Use Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts
In this article we bring anthropological reflections to bear on a recent event we participated in, whereby farmers and scientists came together to discuss the possibility of applying rainfall seasonal forecasts to improve agricultural production and livelihood security in West Africa. In so doing, We also report on the research findings from the project that organized this encounter and that we have been working with for the last three years. Our…
Global Science, Local Practice
Environmental concerns during the 1990s were dominated by the question of global warming, which may indeed become the central theme in development politics in the coming millennium. As we are going to press, more than 100 developed and developing countries are involved in rounds of talks surrounding the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement reached in 1997 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seeking to avert or re…
The costs and risks of coping with drought
This paper analyzes the responses enacted by families of the Central Plateau in Burkina Faso during the year that followed a severe drought in 1997. We illustrate the agro-ecological and socio-economic contexts that shape livelihood options and constraints in an area characterized by high levels of climatic risk and low natural resource endowment. A description of farmers' perceptions and official accounts identifies key criteria whereby farmers …
Reading the Rains
This article describes how farmers of Burkina Faso predict seasonal rainfall and examines how their forecasts relate to those produced by meteorological science. Farmers' forecasting knowledge encompasses shared and selective repertoires. Most farmers formulate expectations from observation of natural phenomena. Cultural and ritual spiritualists also predict rainfall from divination, visions, and dreams. Rather than positing local and scientific …
Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers responses to climate predictions
CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 33:81-99 (2006) - doi:10.3354/cr033081 Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers' responses to climate predictions Carla Roncoli* Center for Research on Environmental Decisions and South East Climate Consortium, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 3…
Communication and mental processes
Indigenous climate knowledge in southern Uganda
Farmers in southern Uganda seek information to anticipate the interannual variability in the timing and amount of precipitation, a matter of great importance to them since they rely on rain-fed agriculture for food supplies and income. The four major components of their knowledge system are: (1) longstanding familiarity with the seasonal patterns of precipitation and temperature, (2) a set of local traditional climate indicators, (3) observation …
Forecast Skill and Farmers’ Skills
During the last 10 yr, research on seasonal climate forecasts as an agricultural risk management tool has pursued three directions: modeling potential impacts and responses, identifying opportunities and constraints, and analyzing risk communication aspects. Most of these approaches tend to frame seasonal climate forecasts as a discrete product with direct and linear effects. In contrast, the authors propose that agricultural management is a perf…
Introduction to symposium on rethinking farmer participation in agricultural development
Cultural styles of participation in farmers’ discussions of seasonal climate forecasts in Uganda
Participatory Models and Exclusionary Frames in Water Management
Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya
Growing food, growing a movement
Waterworlds
Data Availability Principles and Practice
Denotes content that is immediately available upon publication as open access.© 2020 American Meteorological Society. For information regarding reuse of this content and general copyright information, consult the AMS Copyright Policy (www.ametsoc.org/PUBSReuseLicenses)
Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions
Adaptation Pathways have emerged as promising approaches for exploring sequences of actions to address challenges in uncertain conditions. This study elaborates on how pathway approaches operate in practice by applying a learning framework that identifies guiding propositions for successful adaptation pathways. The framework is used to analyze a transformative scenario planning case study from rural Mali. Findings confirm that adaptation pathways…
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Adaptation bricolage
A growing body of adaptation literature focuses on community resistance, a phenomenon whereby local people reject external interventions aimed at bolstering adaptation and/or resilience. While this is often considered as “adaptation failure” by development agencies, it may reflect a more complex reality. In this Viewpoint article, we engage an adaptation bricolage lens to examine a set of case studies of externally introduced adaptation in agricu…
Climate change and food production in Africa
Climate change introduces new uncertainties and complexities to already stressed and precarious agricultural systems in Africa. While extreme climate events, such as droughts and flood, dominate the headlines, gradual shifts in climate conditions, such as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall severely affect crop and livestock production in many African countries. We analyze records from two databases to identify how those shifts affect Afr…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Business (7 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (4 works)