Adaptive lives. Navigating the global food crisis in a changing climate

Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard; Vigh, Henrik

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.03.010

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“…Similarly, harnessing innovation may not only contribute to general resilience but also towards transformative change e.g. individuals finding entirely new livelihoods or ways of living (Nielsen & Vigh, 2012;Moore & Westley, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Assessments of vulnerability and resilience are often focused on a specific type of shock (Meerow et al 2016). We consider general resilience here given that it is likely to be difficult to pinpoint specific adaptive measures in the urban poor context where the shocks individuals face are multiple and synergistic (Nielsen and Vigh, 2012;Waters et al, 2010 Eakin and colleagues (2014) distinguish between generic capacity and specific capacity in dealing with risks and that generic capacity is often limited at collective scales of governance. Marshall and colleagues (2012) and Cinner and colleagues (2015) have shown how adaptive capacity, at both individual and collective levels extends beyond resources to include dimensions of learning, skills in planning, and willingness to undertake adaptive actions (see also Berkes & Ross, 2013).…”

Section: Resilience and Adaptive Capacity In Poor Urban Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spatial, network and temporal dimensions of the determinants of adaptive capacity in poor urban areas

Waters

Adger

2017

Global Environmental Change

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Slums and informal settlements are home to rapidly growing populations in urban areas globally and face a range of significant shocks and stresses. The sustainability of these places is critically intertwined with the resilience of their populations. The nature of the capacity for populations to adapt to shocks, as an element of resilience, is related to the evolving knowledge and networks of those populations and is suggested here to have significant spatial and temporal

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Section: Resilience and Adaptive Capacity In Poor Urban Areasmentioning

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Spatial, network and temporal dimensions of the determinants of adaptive capacity in poor urban areas

Waters

Adger

2017

Global Environmental Change

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“…This indeed shows that climate variability acutely affects rural livelihoods and agricultural productivity, yet it is just one of many stresses with which vulnerable rural households have dealt with (Ziervogel and Calder 2003). Thus, it is appropriate to argue that humans do not only tread a changing biophysical reality when adapting to climate change, but also a changing social, political and economic one, and often in novel and surprising ways (Nielsen and Vigh 2012).Simultaneously, as the findings reveal, farmers in the study site have responded to problematic climatic, political and socio-economic events several times before 1992. Therefore, farmers' adaptive strategies in this paper should be read primarily in terms of intensification, expansion, reframing, reviving and reorganisation.…”

Section: Adapting Lives and Livelihoodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unlike food for work programmes and borrowing from friends and relatives, these strategies were capable of taking them into the future. In this respect, adaptation to climatic variability should never really be understood as a matter of adapting to the present only but rather adapting to a multiplicity of proximate, mediate and future perforations (Nielsen and Vigh 2012).…”

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Understanding adaptation to climate variability in smallholder farming systems in eastern Zimbabwe: a sociological perspective

Bhatasara

2018

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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The literature on climate change in Zimbabwe continues to grow, but literature specifically focusing on how people in rural communities are responding to it is still comparatively limited. Only a few scholars have sought to offer a reasonably detailed account of farmers' concerns and adaptation from localised, qualitative case studies based on farmers' narratives. As such, this article is empirically based, using mainly qualitative data from a broader research on understanding climate variability and livelihood adaptation conducted in Mutoko District in rural Zimbabwe. In doing so, the aim is not only to contribute empirical data to existing knowledge but also more importantly to theorise adaptation sociologically. The main argument is that farmers are reflexively engaged in various adaptive strategies predominantly at the household level not only to adapt to increasing climatic variability but also to simultaneously navigate a difficult socioeconomic landscape. The adaptive strategies are underpinned by diverse structures, processes and conditions that are enabling and constraining. Hence adaptation is unfolding as a complex and reflexive process under specific socio-spatial conditions.

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“…Tropical cyclones, hailstorms, thunderstorms, wave heights have soared since 1970s. As a result, the undulating climate change has affected water resources, food and agricultural systems globally (Hanjra & Qureshi, 2010;Nielsen & Vigh, 2012;Teixeira et al, 2013). In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the majority of the population depends on climatesensitive agriculture (World Bank, 2010), the frequency of meteorological disasters have caused both prevalent economic and life losses in the region (Gasper et al, 2011;Thurlow et al, 2012) and derailed poverty alleviation efforts (Dell et al, 2009;Skoufias, 2012).…”

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The Effect of Climate Change on Agricultural Crop Returns in Uganda

Tumwine

Lokina

Matovu

2019

JEBS

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The study examined the effect of climate change on agricultural crop returns in Uganda using the Ricardian Panel Tobit technique and the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data, climate data from Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) and global weather data. The findings showed that climate related risks account for over 67 percent of agricultural risks and less than 2 percent of the farming households practise irrigation. Farmers that practised irrigation earned higher agricultural returns nationally than their counterparts did. The findings show that the output elasticities with respect to temperature range from -2.02 percent to 0.543 percent. This implies that for the average temperature increase by 1 percent, maize farm returns decreased by 2.02 percent, banana by 1.7 percent, cassava by 1.50 percent and beans by 1.01 percent. While 1 percent increases in rainfall, lowered banana returns by 0.02 percent, beans by 0.08 percent, cassava by 0.035 percent, maize by 0.025 percent except for groundnuts’ returns increased by 0.115 percent. Apart from climate factors, non-climate factors such as capital, labour, farm size, fertilizers and soil quality are equally important inputs and significantly impact on agricultural farm returns. The study proposes that due to unrelenting adverse climate change effects in Uganda, adoption of multi-pronged approaches such as extensive irrigation, agro-insurance, diversification of agricultural activities, use of food cribs during bumper harvests would be the breath of life for Ugandan farmers.

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Adaptive lives. Navigating the global food crisis in a changing climate

Cited by 26 publications

References 66 publications

Spatial, network and temporal dimensions of the determinants of adaptive capacity in poor urban areas

Spatial, network and temporal dimensions of the determinants of adaptive capacity in poor urban areas

Understanding adaptation to climate variability in smallholder farming systems in eastern Zimbabwe: a sociological perspective

The Effect of Climate Change on Agricultural Crop Returns in Uganda

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