Principal Investigator:  Marisa Wilson, University of Edinburgh (UoE)
Co-Investigators: Katherine Crowley (UoE), Patricia Northover(UWI), Thera Edwards (UWI), Sylvia Mitchell (UWI), Nicole Plummer (UWI)
AWARD: 7995 GBP
Recipes for Resilience (RfR) will re-connect Caribbean youth to their elders through activities that encourage young people to reflect on their own food behaviours, how they may differ from older people, and why these changes matter in the context of climate adaptation, resilience, and justice for Caribbean peoples of African descent. This will be done through three workshops that draw from the PI's previous engagement work, using sensory methods, storytelling, games, role play, and song, and through youth-led research conducting sensory oral history interviews with their elders about eating, cooking, commensality and gardening. Outputs will include story maps, calypso, soca, reggae, rap and spoken word songs and a podcast recording, which will be shared publicly through an open educational resource.
RfR will broaden and deepen the work of our partners and co-creators, the Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN), a group of young people aged 14-31 from nineteen Caribbean countries. Since 2020 CYEN has been working with the UNDP and UNICEF to research youth perspectives on climate change in the Caribbean, culminating in a report to be presented to heads of governments at the COP26. In addition to broadening their networks, the project will deepen CYEN's work on climate change and agrifood systems. CYEN activities have largely centred on climate change, land use and agricultural production, while RfR centres on whole food system changes, with a particular emphasis on food cultures, behaviours and community resilience.
Linked Information: https://twitter.com/GeosciencesEd/status/1435581270302601224?s=20 AND https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/news/school?item=1539