Operationalizing food system resilience: An indicator-based assessment in agroindustrial, smallholder farming, and agroecological contexts in Bolivia and Kenya

Jacobi, Johanna; Mukhovi, Stellah; Llanque, Aymara; Augstburger, Horacio Florian; Käser, Fabian; Pozo, Claudia; Peter, Mariah Ngutu; Delgado, José Manuel Freddy; Kiteme, Boniface; Rist, Stephan; Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.08.044

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“…This situation highlights one of the most important consequences of the crisis: the increase in inequalities between European territories. Interregional differences in both GDP per capita and employment decreased considerably during the period 2000-2007, stabilised in 2008, and clearly security [62][63][64][65]. However, this concept has not yet been widely used in a rural setting to try to understand the effects of the economic crisis from a territorial perspective.…”

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confidence: 99%

Diversity, Disparity and Territorial Resilience in the Context of the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Rural Areas in Southern Spain

Sánchez-Zamora

Gallardo-Cobos

2019

Sustainability

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This paper analyses territorial resilience in rural Andalusia, Spain, after the impact of the recent economic crisis and identifies the factors associated with the highest recovery rates in different contexts and territories. To this end, we developed a methodology that incorporates the heterogeneity and diversity of rural territories and uses composite indices calculated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in order to measure levels of resilience and identify the factors that impact recovery in rural counties. The results reveal how different aspects of economic, social, human, and natural capital promote resilient territorial dynamics in rural Andalusia. These results provide useful information for political decision-makers in the design of public policies, especially at a time like the present when the EU is immersed in debate on the reform of rural development policies for the next programming period beyond 2020.

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Diversity, Disparity and Territorial Resilience in the Context of the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Rural Areas in Southern Spain

Sánchez-Zamora

Gallardo-Cobos

2019

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“…They do not take much care in the port with the product, because they say it's for animals." (soy transport driver, Cabezas, 2016) Socio-economic differentiation takes place within the value chain, for instance between small-and large-scale farmers or between monthly incomes that farmers earn compared to input providers [61].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another finding related to the hidden power of input-providing TNCs were highly unequal incomes between large-scale farmers and smallholders: Large-scale farmers had profit margins approximately 250% higher per hectare of soybean, due to arrangements with TNCs relating to inputs as well as to farm gate prices which were positively related to soybean quantities sold. Input providers (vendors of seeds, pesticides, and fertilizers) earned on average 220% more than the other food system actors [61].…”

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“When We Stand up, They Have to Negotiate with Us”: Power Relations in and between an Agroindustrial and an Indigenous Food System in Bolivia

Jacobi

Llanque

2018

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Our global food system is characterized by an increasing concentration and imbalance of power, with trade-offs between hunger, inequality, unsustainable production and consumption, and profit. A systematic analysis of power imbalances in food systems is required if we are to meet the 2030 Agenda vision of promoting sustainable production and consumption patterns and ending hunger and poverty. Such an analysis, with a view to a transformation to more sustainable and just food systems, requires tools to be developed and tested in real-life case studies of food systems. To better understand the structures and mechanisms around power in food systems, this study applies a political ecology lens. We adapted the “power cube” analysis framework that was proposed by the Institute of Development Studies for the analysis of spaces, forms, and levels of power. We apply the analysis of these three dimensions of power to two food systems in the tropical lowlands of Bolivia: one agroindustrial and one indigenous. After identifying food system actors, the food system spaces in which they interact, and what forms of power they use at what levels, we discuss some implications for an emerging scientific culture of power analyses in critical sustainability assessments. Mechanisms of hidden power undermine visible legislative power in both case studies, but in our example of an indigenous food system of the Guaraní people, visible power stays with a local community through their legally recognized and communally owned and governed territory, with important implications for the realization of the right to food.

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“…Agroecosystems represent coupled social-ecological systems that are characterized by complex interactions and feedbacks between components, including ecosystem services and rural livelihoods (Adger, 2000;Liu et al, 2007;Bailey and Buck, 2016). Social-ecological resilience, then, provides an increasingly common framework for linking social and ecological dimensions of food systems (Callo-Concha and Ewert, 2014;Jacobi et al, 2018), and by extension, the concept is useful for linking nutritional and ecological functions of agroecosystems.…”

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“…Several recent studies operationalize agroecosystem resilience by developing indicators and metrics (Büchs, 2003;Cabell and Oelofse, 2012;Urruty et al, 2016;Jacobi et al, 2018). However, such frameworks neglect the ecological and nutritional interactions that contribute to agroecosystem functioning and resilience.…”

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Ecological and Nutritional Functions of Agroecosystems as Indicators of Smallholder Resilience

Stratton

Kuhl

Blesh

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Operationalizing food system resilience: An indicator-based assessment in agroindustrial, smallholder farming, and agroecological contexts in Bolivia and Kenya

Cited by 71 publications

References 38 publications

Diversity, Disparity and Territorial Resilience in the Context of the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Rural Areas in Southern Spain

Diversity, Disparity and Territorial Resilience in the Context of the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Rural Areas in Southern Spain

“When We Stand up, They Have to Negotiate with Us”: Power Relations in and between an Agroindustrial and an Indigenous Food System in Bolivia

Ecological and Nutritional Functions of Agroecosystems as Indicators of Smallholder Resilience

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