Exiting, enduring and innovating: Farm household adaptation to global zoonotic disease

Anderson, Colin; McLachlan, Stéphane M.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.11.008

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Similar to resilience of SMEs, there been studies of how farms cope with change, e.g. with the impact of BSE in Canada (Anderson and McLachlan, 2012); of dairy farmers in the UK coping with foot-andmouth disease (Glover, 2012); the resilience of farms in Australia in the face of protracted drought (Sysak, 2013) and in New Zealand in the face climate change (Kenny, 2011); strategies of Austrian family farmers to build resilience (Darnhofer, 2010); and how French beef farmers maintain their flexibility in the face of market variations and climatic fluctuations (Astigarraga and Ingrand, 2011). Of course, there is a whole body of literature on how farms cope with change over the long term, but while studying the same phenomena, they do not refer to the resilience framework (e.g.…”

Section: Resilience In Different Bodies Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and why it matters for farm management

Darnhofer

2014

European Review of Agricultural Economics

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Resilience is being widely taken up by both researchers and policy makers, leading to lively scientific debates. This paper examines the concept of resilience and its increasing use in the face of both economic uncertainty and climate change, and applies it to farm management. In this context, resilience is understood as encompassing three capabilities: buffer capability, adaptive capability and transformative capability. I argue that resilience thinking opens up new perspectives and provides the potential to better understand the choices made by farmers in the real world. It offers alternative insights into farm management and how farmers balance short-term efficiency and long-term transformability, balance the exploitation of current strengths with exploration of new options, balance path dependencies with path creation. However, while farm resilience emphasizes how farms can weather shocks and adapt, it should not be understood as promoting the individuation of responsibility. Indeed, farm resilience can be strengthened or eroded by policy measures and family dynamics, i.e. processes at both a higher and a lower level. Overall resilience proposes an alternative conceptual lens to one building on equilibrium, thus highlighting and complex dynamics and the role of farmer agency in navigating change.

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Section: Resilience In Different Bodies Of Literaturementioning

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Resilience and why it matters for farm management

Darnhofer

2014

European Review of Agricultural Economics

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“…The dysfunction of the conventional grocery system is not easily overcome and alternative food supply streams constantly encounter legal, regulatory, and infrastructural barriers (Anderson and McLachlan 2012). Regardless, community members indicated that food grown closer to home was typically of higher quality by the time it arrived in Grand Rapids and MCN:…”

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Seeking Indigenous food sovereignty: origins of and responses to the food crisis in northern Manitoba, Canada

Rudolph

McLachlan

2013

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A food crisis confronts many Indigenous communities in northwestern Canada, as reflected by wide-scale food insecurity and diet-related disease. South-generated responses to this crisis generally disregard principles of Indigenous food sovereignty and are disengaged from concerns related to environmental and food justice. This study seeks to explore the needs and priorities of a First Nation (Misipawistik Cree Nation) and an associated Métis community (Grand Rapids) regarding existing and potential responses to the food crisis in northern Manitoba. Substantial changes to the traditional food system were initiated during the establishment of the reserve system in the 1800s and now extend to damage associated with hydro development. Responses to these changes were categorised according to themes and include the revival of country food traditions, individual and community gardens, agriculture in the North, and better quality imported foods. Regardless of response, decisionmaking needs to be community-driven, culturally appropriate, to reflect local priorities in order to effectively address the northern food crisis, and, ultimately, needs to work towards Indigenous food sovereignty to be effective.

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“…Their analysis suggests that state support for cooperative development is being eroded as provincial and federal governments increasingly turn toward neoliberal modes of governance. In this context, grassroots innovations such as cooperative alternative food networks tend to be poorly supported by governments that narrowly couch economic progress in terms of large-scale development projects and commodity agriculture (Anderson & McLachlan, 2012).…”

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