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Towards a Theoretical Grounding of Climate Resilience Assessments for Smallholder Farming Systems in

S. Africa,J. Dixon,L. Stringer,R. Kazmierczak

Published 2015 in Unknown venue

ABSTRACT

Resilience assessments are increasingly used to inform management decisions and development interventions across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In light of current and future climate change and variability, there is growing interest in applying such tools and frameworks to assess and strengthen the climate resilience of smallholder farming systems. However, these assessments are often undertaken without explicit consideration of the resilience thinking in which they are grounded. This makes it difficult to understand how the conceptual aspects of resilience are translating into resilience assessment practice. This paper provides an important first step in tackling this gap, by identifying and using key characteristics of resilience thinking to evaluate existing resilience assessment tools and frameworks and drawing insights for assessing the climate resilience of smallholder farming systems. We find that power, politics, and agency, identified as important in the resilience literature, are not fully incorporated within current tools and frameworks. This leads to inadequate consideration of spatial and temporal trade-offs. We propose six recommendations for assessing the climate resilience of smallholder farming systems in SSA

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2015

  • Venue

    Unknown venue

  • Publication date

    2015-03-13

  • Fields of study

    Agricultural and Food Sciences, Sociology, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3390/RESOURCES4010128
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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