Evidence of resilience capacity in farmers’ narratives: Accounts of robustness, adaptability and transformability across five different European farming systems

Nicholas‐Davies, Phillipa; Fowler, Susan; Midmore, Peter; Coopmans, Isabeau; Draganova, Mariana; Petitt, Andrea; Senni, Saverio

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.07.027

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“…Resilience has both contextual and subjective elements that allow it to be interpreted in different ways (Béné et al., 2019; Jones, 2019; Lindow et al., 2020; Wilson & Wilson, 2019). For instance, previous research has shown that the perceived resilience and resilience (policy) responses depend on particular farm and farming systems’ characteristics, local context and specific challenges (Buitenhuis et al., 2022; Nicholas‐Davies et al., 2021). Moreover, policymakers across European countries favour different policy interventions for enhancing farming systems’ resilience because of differences between the systems’ context and the challenges it faces (Buitenhuis et al., 2020b).…”

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Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform

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The concept of resilience has been increasingly adopted on the European Union's (EU) policy agenda as a principle for agro‐food policy‐making. However, resilience is an ambiguous concept, allowing for different understandings and uses in the context of agro‐food policy‐making. This study analyses whether and how resilience is framed and contributes to framing in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post‐2020 reform process by policymakers and stakeholders. Combining deductive and inductive coding, we analysed 123 policy documents of EU institutions and stakeholders related to the CAP post‐2020 reform debate and the associated Farm‐to‐Fork Strategy. Five distinct resilience frames were identified: (1) income resilience frame, (2) farmers’ supply chain position resilience frame, (3) climate change impact resilience frame, (4) disease resilience frame and (5) ecological resilience frame. Whereas the resilience concept has been deployed by various actors, they differ in their preferred policy actions towards greater resilience.

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Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform

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“…The interactions and conceptual boundaries are still blurry, which makes indicator selection confusing. Some important indicators have two or three attributes of the three capacities of CSRCC at the same time (Manevska-Tasevska et al, 2021;Nicholas-Davies et al, 2021). In our evaluation index system, for example, the cropland area loss rate is negative to the robustness and adaptability.…”

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Evaluation of Cropland System Resilience to Climate Change at Municipal Scale Through Robustness, Adaptability, and Transformability: A Case Study of Hubei Province, China

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A cropland system is one of the most sensitive socio-ecological systems to climate change, such as drought and flood. Facing frequent extreme weather events worldwide, how to improve cropland system resilience to climate change (CSRCC) and thus ensure food production has been concerned. Although a small number of studies have attempted to evaluate CSRCC through single or multiple indicators, few studies have considered the perspective of the three basic capacities of resilience (i.e., robustness, adaptability, and transformability), which could ignore the dynamic characteristics of cropland system resilience against shocks within a certain period. Therefore, this study first constructs an evaluation index system from the three capacities of system resilience. Then, taking Hubei province, China, as a case and comprehensively using the methods of Delphi, AHP, and TOPSIS to assess the spatio-temporal characteristics of CSRCC at the municipal scale from 2011 to 2018. On this basis, the regional disparities of CSRCC are analyzed by using the Theil coefficient. The results show that the CSRCC of Hubei province fluctuates on a downward trend, with the lowest in 2017 and the highest in 2013. Most municipalities have witnessed a pattern of fluctuated decline, except for a few ones in the plains, such as Wuhan and Jingmen. Generally, municipalities in the plains have greater scores, while some municipalities in the southern and eastern hilly regions show higher adaptability and transformability. In addition, adaptability contributes the least to the CSRCC at the municipal scale. At last, indicator selection against different research objects, influencing mechanism of CSRCC, and policy implications are discussed. This study is expected to provide a reference for the practice in sustainable management and utilization of cropland systems.

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“…Given the high diversity of global agricultural landscapes, this calls for flexible, system-based research and policy approaches which account for place-specific contexts and trade-offs when generating management options for farmers [4,5]. Meeting sustainability and resilience challenges will moreover require farmers to understand complex agro-ecological processes, take on active roles in farm management, and to apply adaptive skillsets [6][7][8]. This is particularly the case for heterogeneous and biodiverse farming systems such as agroforestry systems, which are defined as the deliberate inclusion of trees in livestock or annual crop production systems [9].…”

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Innovative Teaching and Learning Formats for the Implementation of Agroforestry Systems—An Impact Analysis after Five Years of Experience with the Real-World Laboratory “Ackerbaum”

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Since 2017, the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) offers transformative learning modules in their curricula, which are called ITL—Innovative Teaching and Learning formats. Student tutors change into the role of teachers and organize lectures, excursions, and assignments at the Real-World Laboratory “Ackerbaum”—an agroforestry system in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany. Students can learn about agroforestry systems, participate in research, and take practical action. The examination of the module is a scientific report linked to the experimental area. In this study, an attempt was made to verify the quality and impact of teaching formats in the ITL via the analysis of 53 reports created by 170 students as well as surveys among participants. For this purpose, indicators were formulated that capture the quality of scientific methods and the contribution to higher education for sustainable development. Students and tutors appreciate the open working atmosphere and the possibility to actively participate in the course; many leave the module motivated. Some even move toward transformation in agriculture professionally as, e.g., consultants in the field of agroforestry. As a transformative institution, HNEE offers with ITL a rare opportunity for practical application, scientific methods, and transdisciplinary collaboration with different stakeholders to work on future models to change today’s agriculture.

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Evidence of resilience capacity in farmers’ narratives: Accounts of robustness, adaptability and transformability across five different European farming systems

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform

Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform

Evaluation of Cropland System Resilience to Climate Change at Municipal Scale Through Robustness, Adaptability, and Transformability: A Case Study of Hubei Province, China

Innovative Teaching and Learning Formats for the Implementation of Agroforestry Systems—An Impact Analysis after Five Years of Experience with the Real-World Laboratory “Ackerbaum”

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