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Breaking the trap
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Resilience thinking: why does it matter? The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) officially drew...
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Traditional farming communities are key stewards of resilience
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. By Pablo Eyzaguirre and Camilla Zanzanaini An agricultural system operates much like a cooking pot. Crops,...
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Resilience Month-long Theme, May 2014
From April 28 – May 31, 2014 the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog will feature blog posts that focus on key resilience concepts in agricultural systems. What is a themed month? The Agriculture and...
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Ecosystem services and resilience
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. The infographic was originally posted on Bioversity International. How do ecosystem services contribute to...
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Are we just buying time?
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Are we just buying time? The question came up toward the end of a workshop on supply chain approaches for...
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Landscape stakeholders do the tango
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. By Abby Hart and Camilla Zanzanaini Managing a landscape begins much like a dance – you learn the basic...
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Natural resource managers maintain resilient agro-ecosystems
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) aims to shift from the current paradigm of...
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Just the right amount of efficiency
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. We know, scientific progress can be frustratingly slow, and research at the boundary of science and...
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African smallholder farm families have lost the elasticity to bounce back!
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Building resilience on Africa’s small farms starts with people and investing in their capacity to bounce back...
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Will the pursuit of food security weaken the resilience of global food systems?
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Fifty years ago palm oil was virtually non-existent in the Colombian diet. Now over 25% of the fat in...
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Nitrogen and Phosphorous: once wonder nutrients now threaten aquatic ecosystems
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Nitrogen and phosphorus are indispensable nutrients to crop plants. Their importance in achieving high crop...
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Do we need a gender lens for climate risk management?
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Variation in agricultural output, due to climatic shocks, is a significant source of risk in agriculture....
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Playing Lasarus: Gaming the path to resilience or the next unused toolkit?
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. During the recent Resilience 2014: Resilience and Development Conference in Montpellier, one clear trend was...
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Can farmers & pastoralists self-assess their climate-resilience?
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. By John Choptiany, Suzanne Phillips, Benjamin Graub, Barbara Herren “Resilience” resounds throughout most...
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Is ‘intensification’ the wrong word?
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. What do we mean by sustainable intensification? Questions and critiques were abuzz earlier this month at the...
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ICTs give farmers the power of choice
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. But what are the implications for resilience? Deep into the mountains of Colombia’s coffee region, a producer...
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Protecting communities from natural disasters requires a landscape approach
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Protecting communities from cyclones and floods requires more than shelters and embankments. It requires a...
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Nature: the ultimate innovator in agricultural systems
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Sources of novelty and innovation are key to building resilience in socio-ecological systems. “Nature” is the...
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Resilience by design: water funds for multifunctional landscapes
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Since the Green Revolution, we’ve been relying heavily on a strategy to control variability in agricultural...
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When Wells Fail: Farmers’ Response to Groundwater Depletion in India
This post is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Resilience. Groundwater is the mainstay of irrigated agriculture in India. Hundreds of millions of smallholders depend on...
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