Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale
The impacts of climate change exacerbate the myriad challenges faced by smallholder farmers in the Tropics. In many of these same regions, there is a lack of current, consistent, and spatially-explicit data, which severely limits the ability to locate smallholder communities, map their adaptive capa...
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| author | Buck Holland, Margaret Zaid Shamer, Sierra Imbach, Pablo Zamora, Juan Carlos Medellin Moreno, Claudia Leguía Hidalgo, Efraín José Donatti, Camila I. Martínez Rodríguez, Ruth Harvey, Celia A. |
| author_browse | Buck Holland, Margaret Donatti, Camila I. Harvey, Celia A. Imbach, Pablo Leguía Hidalgo, Efraín José Martínez Rodríguez, Ruth Medellin Moreno, Claudia Zaid Shamer, Sierra Zamora, Juan Carlos |
| author_facet | Buck Holland, Margaret Zaid Shamer, Sierra Imbach, Pablo Zamora, Juan Carlos Medellin Moreno, Claudia Leguía Hidalgo, Efraín José Donatti, Camila I. Martínez Rodríguez, Ruth Harvey, Celia A. |
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| description | The impacts of climate change exacerbate the myriad challenges faced by smallholder farmers in the Tropics. In many of these same regions, there is a lack of current, consistent, and spatially-explicit data, which severely limits the ability to locate smallholder communities, map their adaptive capacity, and target adaptation measures to these communities. To explore the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers in three data-poor countries in Central America, we leveraged expert input through in-depth mapping interviews to locate agricultural landscapes, identify smallholder farming systems within them, and characterize different components of farmer adaptive capacity. We also used this input to generate an index of adaptive capacity that allows for comparison across countries and farming systems. Here, we present an overview of the expert method used, followed by an examination of our results, including the intercountry variation in expert knowledge and the characterization of adaptive capacity for both subsistence and smallholder coffee farmers. While this approach does not replace the need to collect regular and consistent data on farming systems (e.g. agricultural census), our study demonstrates a rapid assessment approach for using expert input to fill key data gaps, enable trans-boundary comparisons, and to facilitate the identification of the most vulnerable smallholder communities for adaptation planning in data-poor environments that are typical of tropical regions. One potential benefit from incorporating this approach is that it facilitates the systematic consideration of field-based and regional experience into assessments of adaptive capacity, contributing to the relevance and utility of adaptation plans. |
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| spelling | CGSpace780562025-03-13T09:43:58Z Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale Buck Holland, Margaret Zaid Shamer, Sierra Imbach, Pablo Zamora, Juan Carlos Medellin Moreno, Claudia Leguía Hidalgo, Efraín José Donatti, Camila I. Martínez Rodríguez, Ruth Harvey, Celia A. climate change adaptation smallholders landscape coffe farming systems cambio climático adaptación sistemas de explotación café paisaje The impacts of climate change exacerbate the myriad challenges faced by smallholder farmers in the Tropics. In many of these same regions, there is a lack of current, consistent, and spatially-explicit data, which severely limits the ability to locate smallholder communities, map their adaptive capacity, and target adaptation measures to these communities. To explore the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers in three data-poor countries in Central America, we leveraged expert input through in-depth mapping interviews to locate agricultural landscapes, identify smallholder farming systems within them, and characterize different components of farmer adaptive capacity. We also used this input to generate an index of adaptive capacity that allows for comparison across countries and farming systems. Here, we present an overview of the expert method used, followed by an examination of our results, including the intercountry variation in expert knowledge and the characterization of adaptive capacity for both subsistence and smallholder coffee farmers. While this approach does not replace the need to collect regular and consistent data on farming systems (e.g. agricultural census), our study demonstrates a rapid assessment approach for using expert input to fill key data gaps, enable trans-boundary comparisons, and to facilitate the identification of the most vulnerable smallholder communities for adaptation planning in data-poor environments that are typical of tropical regions. One potential benefit from incorporating this approach is that it facilitates the systematic consideration of field-based and regional experience into assessments of adaptive capacity, contributing to the relevance and utility of adaptation plans. 2017-03 2016-11-28T15:56:24Z 2016-11-28T15:56:24Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78056 en Open Access Springer Buck Holland, Margaret; Zaid Shamer, Sierra; Imbach, Pablo; Zamora, Juan Carlos; Medellin Moreno, Claudia; Leguía Hidalgo, Efraín J.; Donatti, Camila I.; Martínez-Rodríguez, Ruth; Harvey, Celia A.. 2016. Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale . Climatic Change 1-15 p. |
| spellingShingle | climate change adaptation smallholders landscape coffe farming systems cambio climático adaptación sistemas de explotación café paisaje Buck Holland, Margaret Zaid Shamer, Sierra Imbach, Pablo Zamora, Juan Carlos Medellin Moreno, Claudia Leguía Hidalgo, Efraín José Donatti, Camila I. Martínez Rodríguez, Ruth Harvey, Celia A. Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale |
| title | Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale |
| title_full | Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale |
| title_fullStr | Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale |
| title_short | Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale |
| title_sort | mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale |
| topic | climate change adaptation smallholders landscape coffe farming systems cambio climático adaptación sistemas de explotación café paisaje |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78056 |
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