My research team and I conducted a systematic review of climate change communication research over the past 25 years. This post shares our findings and access to the full white paper and conference paper. Our primary findings show that we need immediate, practical research into adaptation and mitigation within local communities. Additionally, we need to make sure we are researching equitably; that all areas of the world are receiving attention.
Category: food & agriculture
One Month of Daily Bite-Size Facts on Hunger
Over 800 million people in the world go hungry; that's 1 in 9 of our fellow humans. You can help people suffering from hunger by understanding why this problem happens in a world with plenty of food. Every day this month, I will release one 60-second video on hunger for the holiday season. Together we can solve big problems, but first we have to understand them. Now let's learn!
Dissertation Defense
I near the end of my PhD program at Purdue University and am happy to invite you to join my virtual dissertation defense. This is a culmination of my research in Colombia on climate change adaptation for the past three years. I welcome you to join!
La vida bajo el cambio climático: los caficultores colombianos informan que sienten caos
El cambio climático es una amenaza real para la cadena de suministro de café colombiano. Hay más de 300,000 caficultores en Colombia cuyos medios de vida se ven amenazados por un clima cada vez más caótico, y adicional a eso, el sector cafetero en Colombia proporciona empleo a más de 2 millones de personas. Llevamos a cabo una investigación con una comunidad en particular, los caficultores de Colombia, para comprender cómo conceptualizan el cambio climático y cómo comunican sus experiencias con él desde su perspectiva y en sus propias palabras.
Life Under Climate Change: Colombian Coffee Farmers Report Feeling Chaos
Climate change is a real threat to the Colombian coffee supply chain. There are more than 300,000 coffee farmers in Colombia whose livelihoods are being threatened by an increasingly chaotic climate, and the coffee sector in Colombia provides jobs for over 2 million people. We conducted research with coffee farmers in Colombia to understand how they conceptualize climate change and how they communicate their experiences with it from their perspective and in their own words.
Expert Q&A on food waste & inequality
During a webinar I hosted with Dr. Ken Foster and Dr. Jerry Shively on food waste and inequality, audience members submitted many questions we didn’t have time to answer. We’ve turned these questions into a public Q&A.
On biases, GMOs and embracing the boring
Food security is not the most exciting nor alluring of issues, but it is one of the most important. And technology will play a crucial role in how we feed the world. The decisions we make about technology today will carry major ramifications down the line.
Behind the scenes: Communicating the science of GMOs
I'm not of the mindset that things get better when they're swept under the rug. I've never seen that work. I worked to create a site that lays it out there. Here are GMOs. Here's the science. Now you go decide.
Dr. Jessica Eise 