Sechindra Vallury (PI), Don Nelson (co-PI), and Nathan Cook (co-PI) were awarded funding from the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) for their project titled "Equitable Pathways to Climate-Smart Agriculture: Rethinking Adaptation as a Continuum". The research investigates the challenges faced by farmers in adapting to global climate change, focusing on differences among various types of farmers and over time.  The project asks three related questions: who can adapt their farming practices to climate change, how does this ability vary among different farmers, especially those belonging to historically disadvantaged groups, and what are the long-term impacts of these differences on the sustainability of agriculture? The work will take place in the Indian states of ​Maharashtra and Bihar.

Members of the Brazil Natural Resources Governance Initiative (BNRGI) were selected to participate in a ​in a training program hosted by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) . The BNRGI project is focused on climate-resilient agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon and aims to pilot participatory action-research in partnership with Afro-descendant quilombola communities in Marajó archipelago in the Amazon estuary. 

​The project is co-constructed with the grassroots organization Campinas/Vila União Center for Quilombola Action and Resistance (NARQ). The team is led by Prof. Monique Medeiros of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and includes Luciane Lopes and Glenda Leão of NARQ, Prof. Daniel Braga (UFPA), and Profs. Don Nelson and Gregory Thaler (University of Georgia).