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How Colombian coffee farmers helped my climate-change research

Community engagement enabled Jessica Eise to boost the relevance of her research. Here are her six tips for how to do this.
  1. Jessica Eise

    1. Jessica Eise researches climate change, food security, technology and communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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My research with coffee farmers in Colombia aims to understand how their communities are harmed by environmental pressures and what resources they need to adapt. For these farmers, growing crops is more than a job. It is their way of life. The Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia is a World Heritage Site — designated by the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO — honouring the generational tradition of farming in this region. The landscape consists of 18 urban settlements dating back to the nineteenth century, with coffee farms situated on steep mountain ranges, often in forest clearings.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01996-2

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  1. Lambert, N. J. & Eise, J. Int. J. Commun. 14, 21 (2020).

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  2. Eise, J. & Rawat, M. J. Appl. Commun. Res. 49, 651–668 (2021).

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