Constraints and capacities for novel livelihood adaptation: lessons from agricultural adoption in an African dryland pastoralist system

King, Elizabeth G.; Unks, Ryan R.; German, Laura

doi:10.1007/s10113-017-1270-x

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“…Food security was the leading health impact of CFPIs assessed, with 17 studies evaluating it (38.4% of the 44 studies reporting on health impacts). These studies most commonly looked at food security as a standalone health impact, where the premise of the study was to assess food security within the household as a result of a particular programme 46,95,117 or as a case study or evaluation of current community food production practices. 15,20,45,66,73,120 When food security was evaluated in conjunction with other health impacts, they were almost exclusively nutrition status, dietary intake or malnutrition.…”

Section: Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Job opportunities and education were only explored in studies from Kenya, with education linked to food security and nutrition status 66,90 and a positive impact on job opportunities within a community because of a CFPI. 46,50 Gender empowerment in Kenya was the most reported social impact sub-category overall, evaluated by six studies (5.1%). Knowledge transfer & capacity building was the most prominent impact sub-category in South Africa (n=4 studies), while social capital was most studied in Cameroon (n= 2 studies).…”

Section: Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A systematic scoping review of the impacts of community food production initiatives in Kenya, Cameroon, and South Africa

Hutton

Brugulat-Panés

Bhagtani

et al. 2021

Journal of Global Health Reports

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Background Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, one in two people in Africa were food insecure. The burden of malnutrition remains high (e.g. childhood stunting, anaemia in women of reproductive age) or are increasing (e.g. overweight and obesity). A range of coordinated actions are required to improve this situation, including increasing local food production and consumption. The aim of this review was to provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of recently published research into the health, social, economic, and environmental impacts of community food production initiatives (CFPIs) in Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa. Methods We searched eight electronic databases covering health, social, environmental, economic and agricultural sciences. Primary research studies published from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2018 were considered. Data on geographic location, study design, type of CFPI and the impacts assessed were abstracted from eligible articles. Findings We identified 4828 articles, 260 of which required full-text review and 118 met our eligibility criteria. Most research was conducted in Kenya (53.4%) and South Africa (38.1%). The categories of CFPIs studied were (in order of decreasing frequency): crop farming, livestock farming, unspecified farming, fisheries, home / school gardens, urban agriculture, and agroforestry. The largest number of studies were on the economic and environmental impacts of CFPIs, followed by their health and social impacts. The health impacts investigated included food security, nutrition status and dietary intake. One study investigated the potential impact of CFPIs on non-communicable diseases. Over 60% of studies investigated a single category of impact. Not one of the studies explicitly used a theoretical framework to guide its design or interpretation. Conclusions Our findings on research studies of CFPIs suggest the need for a greater focus on interdisciplinary research in order to improve understanding of the relationships between their health, environmental, economic, and social impacts. Greater use of explicit theoretical frameworks could assist in research design and interpretation, helping to ensure its relevance to informing coordinated intersectoral interventions and policy initiatives. Diet, nutrition and food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa remain major public health concerns, with its people being some of the most nutritionally insecure in the world. 1 Factors compounding the risk of malnutrition and poor health are conflict, climate variability, poor infrastructure, and a dietary transition towards processed and ultra-processed foods that are energy dense as well as high in refined sugars, saturated fats, and salt. 2 This shift in dietary patterns, to

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confidence: 99%

A systematic scoping review of the impacts of community food production initiatives in Kenya, Cameroon, and South Africa

Hutton

Brugulat-Panés

Bhagtani

et al. 2021

Journal of Global Health Reports

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“…Based on this, Davies and Hossain (1997) proposed livelihood adaptation as a dynamic process of constant change to livelihoods which may enhance existing security and wealth or reduce vulnerability and poverty. The concept of livelihood adaptation has been applied widely to a variety of topics such as climate change adaptation (Chen et al, 2018;King et al, 2018;Wise et al, 2016;Roncoli et al, 2001), ecological resettlement (Dong et al, 2012), refugee resettlement (Mbakem and Collins, 2014), and migration due to hydropower projects (Kura et al, 2017;Wilmsen, 2016a;Tan and Wang, 2003). However, the livelihood adaptation of land-lost peasants going through land appropriation attracts relatively little attention in the research.…”

Section: Livelihood Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Livelihood adaptation and life satisfaction among land-lost farmers: Critiquing China’s urbanisation-driven land appropriation

Tong

Zhu

2019

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Large-scale rural land appropriation and displacement, driven by the unprecedented urban growth currently experienced in China, has created millions of land-lost peasants who live in the city but remain culturally, socially and institutionally rural. The situation has attracted growing attention in the literature because of its negative social impact, but relatively few studies have addressed how land-lost farmers adapt to urban ways of life and what factors influence their life satisfaction. In this paper, we investigate the predictors of livelihood adaptation and life satisfaction of land-lost farmers from a land appropriation case in the city of Changchun, Northeast China. The results show that, five years after the appropriation, livelihood adaptation remained very difficult and life satisfaction was poor among the resettlers. Furthermore, marginalised groups, such as those who were older, less educated and from smaller families, and those with lower pre-displacement income were less likely to have a higher income level after resettlement, resulting in a lower level of life satisfaction. Women also had lower life satisfaction than men. The study highlights an urgent need to improve China’s unjust land appropriation policy with a particular focus on attending to the needs of marginalised groups.

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“…The temporal sequentiality of decision-making and enactment in ESLA emphasizes the need for policies to consider at the outset which capacities people will need to successfully navigate both stages of adaptation [56]. Policy interventions that incentivize decisions, while households lack the needed capacities to enact decisions over time, can in fact increase livelihood vulnerability [120].…”

Section: Adaptation Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing the integration of ecosystem services and livelihood adaptation

King

Nelson

McGreevy

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Around the world today, the magnitude and rates of environmental, social, and economic change are undermining the sustainability of many rural societies that rely directly on natural resources for their livelihoods. Sustainable development efforts seek to promote livelihood adaptations that enhance food security and reduce social-ecological vulnerability, but these efforts are hampered by the difficulty of understanding the complexity and dynamism of rural livelihood systems. Disparate research avenues are strengthening our ability to grapple with complexity. But we are only just beginning to find ways to simultaneously account for problematic complexities, including multiscalar feedbacks in the ecosystems that that support livelihoods, the heterogeneous benefits garnered by different segments of society, and the complex contingencies that constrain people's decisions and capacities to adapt. To provide a more nuanced analysis of the dynamics of transformation in rural livelihood systems, we identified key complementarities between four different research approaches, enabling us to integrate them in a novel research framework that can guide empirical and modeling research on livelihood adaptation. The framework capitalizes upon parallel concepts of sequentiality in (1) ecosystem services and (2) livelihood adaptation scholarship, then incorporates principles from (3) adaptation in social-ecological systems research to account for the dynamism inherent in these often rapidly-transforming systems. Lastly, we include advances in (4) agent-based modeling, which couples human decisions and land use change and provides tools to incorporate complex social-ecological feedbacks in simulation studies of livelihood adaptation. Here we describe the new Ecosystem Services-Livelihood Adaptation (ESLA) framework, explain how it links the contributing approaches, and illustrate its application with two case studies. We offer guidance for its implementation in empirical and modeling research, and conclude with a discussion of current challenges in sustainability science and the contributions that could be gained through research guided by the ESLA framework. sustainability of small-scale natural resource-dependent (SSNRD) livelihood systems worldwide. In such rapidly transforming systems, achieving Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously for improved human well-being, poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability will require effective and holistic strategies for livelihood adaptation [2].

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Constraints and capacities for novel livelihood adaptation: lessons from agricultural adoption in an African dryland pastoralist system

Cited by 22 publications

References 27 publications

A systematic scoping review of the impacts of community food production initiatives in Kenya, Cameroon, and South Africa

A systematic scoping review of the impacts of community food production initiatives in Kenya, Cameroon, and South Africa

Livelihood adaptation and life satisfaction among land-lost farmers: Critiquing China’s urbanisation-driven land appropriation

Advancing the integration of ecosystem services and livelihood adaptation

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