A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities
Global climate policies recognize the urgent need to address the inequitable impacts of climate change on smallholder agricultural communities, but there is limited understanding of how to accomplish this in practice. We contribute to closing this gap through the design of a participatory qualitativ...
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| author | Petesch, Patti Fisher, Eleanor Almeida, Olivia Ebenstål Hellin, Jon Bullock, Renee |
| author_browse | Almeida, Olivia Ebenstål Bullock, Renee Fisher, Eleanor Hellin, Jon Petesch, Patti |
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| description | Global climate policies recognize the urgent need to address the inequitable impacts of climate change on smallholder agricultural communities, but there is limited understanding of how to accomplish this in practice. We contribute to closing this gap through the design of a participatory qualitative methodology intended to nurture locally-led “transformative adaptation pathways” that strengthen social equity and sustainability. Our conceptual framework draws upon theories of social equity and justice rooted in participatory parity—values and norms that encourage people to interact with one another as equals and synergistically nurture recognitional, distributional, representational and intergenerational equities. Recognizing that social equity is enhanced when poor and vulnerable people gain decision-making power that expands their access to resources and opportunities, we question how people understand and experience social equity and its relationship to their capacity to adapt. We also ask how norms about gender, generation, and socio-economic status shape people's understandings and experiences of social equity and adaptation. To address these questions, we illustrate the methodological approach with evidence gathered from pilot tests conducted in smallholder communities of Kenya and Philippines. Our findings show how understandings of fairness provide a basis for learning, eliciting comparative and contextualized findings that can inform community-based adaptation. Overall, we demonstrate that in the face of social processes that typically fuel inequities, participatory tools and learning tactics can serve to empower low-income women and men to identify, contribute to, and monitor actions that nurture their community's progress towards strong and equitable climate adaptation capacity. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1697722026-01-06T12:03:49Z A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities Petesch, Patti Fisher, Eleanor Almeida, Olivia Ebenstål Hellin, Jon Bullock, Renee climate change adaptation climate change food security Global climate policies recognize the urgent need to address the inequitable impacts of climate change on smallholder agricultural communities, but there is limited understanding of how to accomplish this in practice. We contribute to closing this gap through the design of a participatory qualitative methodology intended to nurture locally-led “transformative adaptation pathways” that strengthen social equity and sustainability. Our conceptual framework draws upon theories of social equity and justice rooted in participatory parity—values and norms that encourage people to interact with one another as equals and synergistically nurture recognitional, distributional, representational and intergenerational equities. Recognizing that social equity is enhanced when poor and vulnerable people gain decision-making power that expands their access to resources and opportunities, we question how people understand and experience social equity and its relationship to their capacity to adapt. We also ask how norms about gender, generation, and socio-economic status shape people's understandings and experiences of social equity and adaptation. To address these questions, we illustrate the methodological approach with evidence gathered from pilot tests conducted in smallholder communities of Kenya and Philippines. Our findings show how understandings of fairness provide a basis for learning, eliciting comparative and contextualized findings that can inform community-based adaptation. Overall, we demonstrate that in the face of social processes that typically fuel inequities, participatory tools and learning tactics can serve to empower low-income women and men to identify, contribute to, and monitor actions that nurture their community's progress towards strong and equitable climate adaptation capacity. 2024 2025-01-23T15:41:06Z 2025-01-23T15:41:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/169772 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Fisher, Eleanor.; Almeida, Olivia Ebenstål.; Hellin, Jon.; Bullock, Renee. 2024. A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100272 |
| spellingShingle | climate change adaptation climate change food security Petesch, Patti Fisher, Eleanor Almeida, Olivia Ebenstål Hellin, Jon Bullock, Renee A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities |
| title | A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities |
| title_full | A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities |
| title_fullStr | A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities |
| title_short | A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities |
| title_sort | field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities |
| topic | climate change adaptation climate change food security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/169772 |
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