Operationalising resilience in farms and rural regions – Findings from fourteen case studies

Ashkenazy, Amit; Chebach, Tzruya Calvão; Knickel, Karlheinz; Peter, Sarah; Horowitz, Boaz; Offenbach, Rivka

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.07.008

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“…As a matter of fact, stakeholders expressed the importance of cross-scale interactions by emphasising the role of central cities in relation to a wider rural area, and by underlining the importance of networks for the successful implementation of the hub. These results are in line with what was highlighted by Wilson [32,51] and Singer et al [52]. These scholars argued that exogenous drivers acting across multiple institutional scales (from local to regional levels) can either strengthen or weaken some capitals that are important for community resilience.…”

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Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

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Resilience thinking is an appropriate framework when assessing the transitional potential of complex urban systems. The transformation of abandoned spaces into local hubs attracting new and innovative activities and events promotes a socioeconomic renaissance in urban communities, by stimulating adaptation to change, enhancing local resilience and strengthening urban–rural links. Under the conceptual umbrella of resilience thinking, the present study illustrates the outcomes of an integrated program of research-action aimed at urban regeneration in a medium-sized, economically disadvantaged city in Southern Italy (Battipaglia, Campania). The transformation of an abandoned building into an ‘Art–Food Hub’—a multi-purpose and creative cultural space—based on resilience thinking was the specific case analyzed in our study. Appropriate stakeholders were identified and involved in a series of field activities and workshops, with the final objective of informing a comprehensive strategy strengthening awareness to change and capacity building. More specifically, stakeholder involvement was carried out with two aims: first, to make stakeholders active participants in co-designing a Strategic Urban Planning Document for Battipaglia and, second, to evaluate to what extent the proposed initiative contributes to building local resilience. By explicitly considering cross-scale drivers of community resilience, the results of this study show how the concept of resilience can be practically applied to policy formulation and implementation.

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“…Resilience puts weight on equilibrium and stability, whereas social systems are complex, and include feedback mechanisms and human agency. Ashkenazy et al [1] point to the fact that resilience in some parts of a system might hinder resilience in other parts of the system, or that an action or adjustment that is resilient at an individual level is not necessarily resilient at a regional level. Lastly, what seems to be a manoeuvre towards resilience today might not be in the future.…”

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“…In agrarian studies there is a substantial and increasing body of literature on the sustainability of farming, structural changes in farming, and environmental issues, as well as a focus on the social and cultural aspects of farming and the farming community. In the last decade, a new concept has been introduced into this literature: farm resilience [1][2][3][4]. Resilience thinking is seen as a conceptual framework that points to processes of change and transformation in a new and more dynamic and holistic way, and it recognizes the intertwined nature of social and ecological systems [5,6]).…”

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Resilience in Mountain Farming in Norway

Daugstad

2019

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The concept of socio-ecological farm resilience is used to understand how farmers manoeuvre in a context of change, what choices and priorities they make, and how that subsequently influences the development of the farming landscape. The author uses farm resilience, the capabilities of buffering, adaptation and transformation, and the response of bouncing back or forward as a conceptual frame in a study of farmers in a mountain community in Norway. Interviews were held with selected farmers. The results indicated that the resilience framework is useful in order to understand farmers’ priorities and situations. The author finds that the responses and decisions are in line with all three capabilities as well as with bouncing back and forward. However, most responses were categorized as bouncing back (i.e. adjustments and changes) but the logic of the farm system remained the same.

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“…The return to new forms of mixed farming can be observed all over Europe, in landscapes that for decades have been experiencing ongoing specialization towards either livestock or arable farming. Mixed farming creates synergistic loops that strengthen resilience and help to build economies of scope rather than economies of scale (Teece, 1980;Milone and Ventura, 2000;Ashkenazy et al, 2018;De Roest et al, 2018), thus contributing to further cost decreases and subsequent increases in VA/GVP (Panzar and Willig, 1981). Equation 2expresses how the costs of producing two products (q1 and q2) together are lower than producing them individually 11especially if they are linked by synergistic loops.…”

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The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe

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Barjolle

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Journal of Rural Studies

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This article discusses the economic dimensions of agroecological farming systems in Europe. It firstly theoretically elaborates the reasons why, and under what conditions, agroecological farming systems have the potential to produce higher incomes than farms that follow the conventional logic. This theoretical exposition is then followed by a presentation of empirical material from a wide range of European countries that shows the extent to which this potential is being realized. The empirical data draw upon different styles of farming that can be described as 'proto-agroecological': approaches to farming that are agroecological by nature, but which may not necessarily explicitly define themselves as agroecological. The empirical material that we present shows the huge potential and radical opportunities that Europe's, often silent, 'agroecological turn' offers to farmers that could (and should) be the basis for the future transformation of European agricultural policies, since agroecology not only allows for more sustainable production of healthier food but also considerably improves farmers' incomes. It equally carries the promise of re-enlarging productive agricultural (and related) employment and increasing the total income generated by the agricultural sector, at both regional and national levels. While we recognise that agroecology is a worldwide and multidimensional phenomenon we have chosen to limit this analysis to Europe and the economic dimension. This choice is made in order to refute current discourses that represent agroecology as unproductive and unprofitable and an option that would require massive subsidies.

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Operationalising resilience in farms and rural regions – Findings from fourteen case studies

Cited by 96 publications

References 25 publications

Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

Resilience in Mountain Farming in Norway

The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe

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