Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems
Farm and food systems face mounting challenges including climate risks, resource degradation, poor nutrition outcomes, and unstable farm incomes despite significant agricultural production growth. The high heterogeneity in smallholder farming systems—across resources, risks, preferences, and capacit...
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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
2025
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| author | Kumar, Shalander |
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| description | Farm and food systems face mounting challenges including climate risks, resource degradation, poor nutrition outcomes, and unstable farm incomes despite significant agricultural production growth. The high heterogeneity in smallholder farming systems—across resources, risks, preferences, and capacities—necessitates systems-based analytical approaches for effective intervention design. A systems approach enables understanding of feedback loops, identification of leverage points, and recognition of diverse stakeholder roles to facilitate co-creation of solutions. Critical analytical tools include cropping systems suitability analysis, multi-dimensional sustainability assessment, vulnerability indexing, and whole-farm bio-economic modeling. These frameworks help address key questions about accounting for diversity, integrating climate and market risks, and evaluating synergies and trade-offs in whole farming system contexts. Evidence from marginal environments demonstrates the importance of differentiated pathways based on farm typologies, with interventions ranging from enhancing nutritious food access in subsistence systems to reducing transaction costs in market-oriented systems. Scaling sustainable farming systems requires demand-driven production, landscape-level synergies, digital innovations, payment for ecosystem services, and coherent policy frameworks supporting agricultural transformation. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1775172025-11-04T12:02:02Z Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems Kumar, Shalander food systems sustainable agriculture vulnerability farm models agricultural transformation Farm and food systems face mounting challenges including climate risks, resource degradation, poor nutrition outcomes, and unstable farm incomes despite significant agricultural production growth. The high heterogeneity in smallholder farming systems—across resources, risks, preferences, and capacities—necessitates systems-based analytical approaches for effective intervention design. A systems approach enables understanding of feedback loops, identification of leverage points, and recognition of diverse stakeholder roles to facilitate co-creation of solutions. Critical analytical tools include cropping systems suitability analysis, multi-dimensional sustainability assessment, vulnerability indexing, and whole-farm bio-economic modeling. These frameworks help address key questions about accounting for diversity, integrating climate and market risks, and evaluating synergies and trade-offs in whole farming system contexts. Evidence from marginal environments demonstrates the importance of differentiated pathways based on farm typologies, with interventions ranging from enhancing nutritious food access in subsistence systems to reducing transaction costs in market-oriented systems. Scaling sustainable farming systems requires demand-driven production, landscape-level synergies, digital innovations, payment for ecosystem services, and coherent policy frameworks supporting agricultural transformation. 2025-03-07 2025-11-03T21:51:39Z 2025-11-03T21:51:39Z Presentation https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177517 en Open Access application/pdf International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Kumar, S. 2025. Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems. Presented at the 1st International Farming Systems Conference, ICAR–Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research, Modipuram, India, 07–09 March 2025. Patancheru, India: ICRISAT. |
| spellingShingle | food systems sustainable agriculture vulnerability farm models agricultural transformation Kumar, Shalander Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems |
| title | Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems |
| title_full | Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems |
| title_fullStr | Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems |
| title_short | Systems Analysis to Support Transitions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems |
| title_sort | systems analysis to support transitions towards resilient and sustainable farming systems |
| topic | food systems sustainable agriculture vulnerability farm models agricultural transformation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177517 |
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