Climate change and smallholder households across multiple dimensions: Perception, adaptation and...
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Livestock Systems and Environment seminars Climate Change and smallholder households across multiple dimensions: perception, adaptation and barriers to adoption A seminar by Dr. Silvia Silvestri 20 November 2014 3:30-4:30 pm, Room 721, ILRI-Nairobi Cocktail reception thereafter (pool area) Everyone is invited. Silvia Silvestri is a senior scientist, environment and livelihoods, at ILRI since 2010. As an environmental social scientist she has over 12 years of professional experience at the intersection of natural resources management and planning, economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, socio- economic assessment of climate change impacts, cost and benefit analysis of land-use changes and land-use management to the local livelihoods and global climate change. Her current activities are related to the assessment of land use and climate change and their impacts on poverty and the environment to inform the design of adaptation strategies and sustainable land management. Silvia holds a PhD with ‘European Doctor Mention’ in Agricultural Economics and Policy, and held post-doctoral position from University of Venice with grant from EIB (European Investment Bank) in climate change impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity. She has been involved with a number of major international conservation and poverty alleviation processes, including Convention on
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Livestock Systems and Environment seminarsClimate Change and smallholder households across multiple dimensions: perception, adaptation and barriers to adoption
A seminar by Dr. Silvia Silvestri
20 November 20143:30-4:30 pm, Room 721, ILRI-NairobiCocktail reception thereafter (pool area)
Everyone is invited.
Silvia Silvestri is a senior scientist, environment and livelihoods, at ILRI since 2010.As an environmental social scientist she has over 12 years of professional experience at the intersection of natural resources management and planning, economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, socio-economic assessment of climate change impacts, cost and benefit analysis of land-use changes and land-use management to the local livelihoods and global climate change.Her current activities are related to the assessment of land use and climate change and their impacts on poverty and the environment to inform the design of adaptation strategies and sustainable land management.Silvia holds a PhD with ‘European Doctor Mention’ in Agricultural Economics and Policy, and held post-doctoral position from University of Venice with grant from EIB (European Investment Bank) in climate change impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity. She has been involved with a number of major international conservation and poverty alleviation processes, including Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), The World Bank, The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO) and the European Commission (DG AGRI, DG CLIMA).
