Arani Ranawalage Dona

PhD student

I am a Ph.D. research scholar from Sri Lanka with a background in agricultural systems and natural resource management. My research interests include sustainable agriculture, common resource management, local adaptation and resilience, and community-based conservation. My research focuses on developing a participatory systems dynamics model to explore the causes and effects of resilience in small-scale, rural farming systems facing diverse agricultural challenges. Additionally, I aim to quantify the relationships between farmers' resilience capacities and various farm and farmer characteristics. This research seeks to identify key drivers that strengthen the resilience of small-scale farming communities, contributing to more sustainable and adaptive agricultural systems.