Producing Vulnerabilities 1: Smallholder livelihoods and global change in Central America and the Caribbean
is scheduled on Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Union Square 13, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Rural Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
Iris Stewart-Frey – Santa Clara University
Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Chair(s):
Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
Abstract(s):
8:00 AM Author(s): *Catherine Tucker – Indiana University
Abstract Title: Seeking Resilience in Contexts of Risk: Smallholder coffee producers and adaptations to global change in Central America
8:20 AM Author(s): *Zack Guido, PhD – University of Arizona
Timothy Finan, PhD – University of Arizona
Kevon Rhiney, PhD – University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Valerie Rountree – University of Arizona
Malgosia Madajewicz – Columbia University
Cathy Vaughan – International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
Teddy Allen, Phd – International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
Viviana Rivera-Burgos – Columbia University
8:40 AM Author(s): *Rachel Ward – UC Berkeley
Abstract Title: Climate Change Adaptations: Roya and Resilience in Copán, Honduras
9:00 AM Author(s): *Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
William Sundstrom – Santa Clara University
Iris Stewart-Frey – Santa Clara University
David Beezer – Santa Clara University
Abstract Title: Vulnerability or Resilience: Smallholders Respond to Drought and the Coffee Rust Outbreak in Nicaragua
9:20 AM Discussant: Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Discussant(s):
Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Session Description: Despite conserving agro-biodiversity and producing food for a substantial segment of the population, rural smallholder families in the Global South comprise more than 50% of the global food-insecure population. Commonly, food-insecure households are also affected by water insecurity, and are vulnerable to climatic variability and extremes, as well as price volatility on domestic and international markets. Current conditions in Central America have created timely conditions for examining questions of vulnerability and resilience in the face of ‘la roya’, a rapidly spreading coffee pathogen, climate variability (e.g., drought), and sharp increases in prices for several staple foods. We invite contributions that examine linkages between food and water security for Central American smallholders, patterns of livelihood vulnerability, and the role of institutions in building, and sometimes undermining, locally-focused adaptation strategies
Paper Session:
3240 Producing Vulnerabilities 2: Gender and Cooperative Responses in Latin America
is scheduled on Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Union Square 13, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Rural Geography Specialty Group
Latin America Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
Chair(s):
Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Abstract(s):
10:00 AM Author(s): *Heather Renee Putnam, PhD – Community Agroecology Network
Abstract Title: Women, Risk, and Resiliency: Gendered Livelihoods, Cooperatives, and Food Security in San Ramon, Nicaragua
10:20 AM Author(s): *Felicity Butler – Royal Holloway, University of London
10:40 AM Author(s): *Ileana I. Diaz – University of Western Ontario
Abstract Title: Café del Campo: Exploring the Relationship Between Agroecological Coffee Production and Food Sovereignty in Puerto Rico
11:00 AM Author(s): *Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Sarah Lyon – University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
Abstract Title: Financialize Rurality
11:20 AM Discussant: Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
3440 Producing Vulnerabilities 3: Commodities, Communities and Social Reproduction
is scheduled on Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Union Square 13, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Rural Geography Specialty Group
Latin America Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
Chair(s):
Ryan Edward Galt – University of California – Davis
Abstract(s):
1:20 PM Author(s): *Yulia Peralta – University of Arizona – Arid Lands Resource Sciences
Margaret Wilder, Ph.D. – University of Arizona
Abstract Title: Community versus Commodity: the Struggle of Small-scale Producers in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico
1:40 PM Author(s): *Will Penner – University of Kansas
Abstract Title: Sowing Sovereignty: Addressing the Gaps in Food Security Initiatives
2:00 PM Author(s): *Consuelo Guayara Sanchez, Ph.D. – University of Iowa
Abstract Title: Reproducing Gendered Cultural Practices or Forging an Ethics of Care?
2:20 PM Author(s): *John M. Talbot – University Of the West Indies, Mona
Abstract Title: The Origin of Blue Mountain Coffee
2:40 PM Author(s): *Ryan Edward Galt – University of California – Davis
Abstract Title: Just chocolate? Chocolate makers’ discursive connections between trade, quality, and producer livelihoods in the Americas
3540 Producing Vulnerabilities 4: Contesting Exclusions – Roundtable Discussion.
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Union Square 13, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
Organizer(s):
Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
Chair(s):
Tad Mutersbaugh – University of Kentucky
Introduction:
Christopher Bacon – Santa Clara University
Panelist(s):
Robert A. Rice – Smithsonian Institution
Bradley Wilson – West Virginia University
Catherine Tucker – Indiana University
Consuelo Guayara Sanchez – University of Iowa
Claudia A. Radel – Utah State University
Ed Maurer – Santa Clara University
See end of this doc for a list of all producing vulnerabilities panels this same day
Session Description: This roundtable will build on previous panel discussions to consider future strategies through which farmers, families and organizations may work across scales to creatively challenge social and economic marginalization and forms of gender, racial and other exclusions.