Dr. Silke Stöber

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Dr. Silke Stöber erforscht nachhaltige Landwirtschaft in Afrika und Südostasien mit Fokus auf kleinbäuerliche Gemüse- und Reisproduktion. Sie untersucht, wie Kleinbauern sich an Klimaveränderungen anpassen, ihre Ernährungssicherheit verbessern und gleichzeitig Böden schonen können – dabei arbeitet sie eng mit Farmern zusammen und entwickelt praxisnahe, kostengünstige Lösungen wie verbesserte Bewässerung, organische Bodenfruchtbarkeit und klimaresiliente Sorten.

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Dr. Silke Stöber

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Fakultät

Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institut

Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften

Arbeitsgruppe

Seminar für Ländliche Entwicklung

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• Agroforstwirtschaft neu erfunden: Agrarökologische, ernährungssensible Intensivierung des Gemüse-Anbaus unter Obstbäumen in West- und Ostafrika (AfriNutriForest)

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  Förderer: Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat Zeitraum: 04/2024 - 03/2027 Projektleitung: Dr. Silke Stöber, Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch

• Förderung einer nachhaltigen Landwirtschaft durch gemeinschaftsorientierte Praktiken in Burkina Faso.

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  Förderer: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: Forschungskostenzuschuss Zeitraum: 03/2025 - 04/2026 Projektleitung: Dr. Silke Stöber

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• Understanding adaptive capacity of smallholder African indigenous vegetable farmers to climate change in Kenya

  2019

  Climate Risk Management · 93 Zitationen · DOI

  Understanding the adaptive capacity (AC) of farmers is crucial to planning effective adaptation. Action to promote farmers’ AC is required because climate change (CC) is resulting in unpredictable alterations in weather patterns. Based on the sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF), this study explored how access to natural, physical, financial, social and human capitals enhances the AC. Quantitative data from 269 African indigenous vegetable (AIV) farmers in three selected agro-climatic zones in Kenya were analysed. Four indicators in each capital were selected based on previous studies and judgments collected from an expert online ranking survey (n = 35). The Kruskal-Wallis H test and an independent sample t-test were used to test the independence of AC scores and access to the different resources. The findings showed that the majority of farmers (53%) had a moderate AC, while fewer (32%) and (15%) had low or high AC levels respectively. Disparities in adaptive capacity scores were recorded between respondents in terms of their age, marital status and location. Farmers had high access to social capital but low access to financial, natural and human capitals. Female farmers showed lower capacities in the areas of financial, human and natural resources, while their male counterparts had low access to some human and social capitals. Resilient interventions that target individuals with low adaptive capacities are required. Keywords: Adaptive capacity, Climate change, Farmers, Kenya

• Growing and Eating Food during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Farmers’ Perspectives on Local Food System Resilience to Shocks in Southern Africa and Indonesia

  2020

  Sustainability · 85 Zitationen · DOI

  The COVID-19 outbreak forced governments to make decisions that had adverse effects on local food systems and supply chains. As a result, many small-scale food producers faced difficulties growing, harvesting, and selling their goods. This participatory research examines local small-scale farmers’ challenges as farmers but also as consumers and their coping strategies during the month of April and one week in June 2020. The study was initiated and conceptualized in collaboration with small-scale farmer members of an existing research network in selected urban and rural areas in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Indonesia. Participants co-designed the research, collected and uploaded data through digital survey tools, and contributed to data analysis and interpretation. A common observation across regions is that the measures imposed in response to COVID-19 highlighted and partly exacerbated existing socio-economic inequalities among food system actors. Strict lockdowns in Cape Town, South Africa, and Masvingo, Zimbabwe, significantly restricted the production capacity of small-scale farmers in the informal economy and created more food insecurity for them. In Maputo, Mozambique, and Toraja and Java, Indonesia, local food systems continued to operate and were even strengthened by higher social capital and adaptive capacities.

• The Role of Indigenous Vegetables to Improve Food and Nutrition Security: Experiences From the Project HORTINLEA in Kenya (2014–2018)

  2022

  Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · 64 Zitationen · DOI

  Many warning signs indicate that the food security goals formulated in 2015 will not be achieved. This situation is particularly true for the African continent. After substantial progress up to 2015, the situation has hardly improved or has worsened in many respects. In addition to the rapid population growth, the increasingly frequent long dry periods or sometimes erratic rainfall have contributed to this. In addition, current production systems have dysfunctional side effects due to increasing yield optimization and specialization. Thus, besides the associated resource degradation, it also leads to a monotonous food supply and the emergence of vitamin and mineral deficiencies (hidden hunger). A meaningful way to diversify the food supply is to cultivate and market previously underutilized species. However, they are characterized by not being known and traded globally and usually having only local importance. Accordingly, they have been widely ignored in research. Increasingly, however, there is a growing realization worldwide that these plants can make an essential contribution to food and nutrition security, especially for poorer segments of the population. Moreover, they are adapted to local conditions and are often produced with less resource input. This article aims to show how these species can be better utilized to provide nutritious food through sustainable production, using the example of African indigenous vegetables. In doing so, the impact of emerging social and ecological changes in Kenya will be considered. This source is an interdisciplinary collaborative research project, Horticultural Innovation and Learning for Improved Nutrition and Livelihood in East Africa (HORTINLEA), which was carried out in Kenya from 2014 to 2018. Many different disciplines were involved in the German-African cooperation project. The results will be brought together in this article with the help of a food-sensitive value chain approach, and the experiences gained from this project will be reflected.

• L'Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles

  Agroforstwirtschaft neu erfunden: Agrarökologische, ernährungssensible Intensivierung des Gemüse-Anbaus unter Obstbäumen in West- und Ostafrika (AfriNutriForest)

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• Pwani Universität

  Agroforstwirtschaft neu erfunden: Agrarökologische, ernährungssensible Intensivierung des Gemüse-Anbaus unter Obstbäumen in West- und Ostafrika (AfriNutriForest)

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