Poster prepared as an advert for the “LSE Seminar—Climate Change and Smallholder Households across Multiple Dimensions: Perception, Adaptation and Barriers to Adoption” by Dr Silvia Silvestri, ILRI, Nairobi, 20 November 2014

1. Livestock Systems and Environment seminars
Climate Change and smallholder
households across multiple dimensions:
perception, adaptation and barriers to
adoption
A seminar by Dr. Silvia Silvestri
20 November 2014
3:30-4:30 pm, Room 721, ILRI-Nairobi
Cocktail reception thereafter (pool area)
Everyone is invited.
Silvia Silvestri is a senior scientist, environment
and livelihoods, at ILRI since 2010.
As an environmental social scientist she has over
12 years of professional experience at the
intersection of natural resources management
and planning, economic valuation of biodiversity
and ecosystem services, socio-economic
assessment of climate change impacts, cost and
benefit analysis of land-use changes and land-use
management to the local livelihoods and
global climate change.
Her current activities are related to the
assessment of land use and climate change and
their impacts on poverty and the environment to
inform the design of adaptation strategies and
sustainable land management.
Silvia holds a PhD with ‘European Doctor
Mention’ in Agricultural Economics and Policy,
and held post-doctoral position from University
of Venice with grant from EIB (European
Investment Bank) in climate change impacts on
ecosystem services and biodiversity. She has
been involved with a number of major
international conservation and poverty
alleviation processes, including Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD), The Economics of
Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), The World
Bank, The United Nations Environmental
Programme (UNEP), the Institute for European
Environmental Policy (IEEP), The Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR), the Food and Agricultural Organization
of the United Nations (UN-FAO) and the
European Commission (DG AGRI, DG CLIMA).