In the Shadow of the Green Revolution: Constrained Spatial Imaginaries and Smallholder Farming in Guatemala’s Pacific Lowlands

Schmook, Birgit; Radel, Claudia; Carte, Lindsey; Johnson, Richard L.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2021.2014907

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“…This approach involves plotting events related to a problem on a graph by considering participants' storytelling as a means to document past experiences (Sheridan et al., 2011), present, or project possible futures. Timelining has been successfully used in group settings to examine climate change impacts (e.g., Dolan & Walker, 2006; Schmook et al., 2023) and to understand the impact of recovery measures on disaster occurrence (e.g., Sword‐Daniels et al., 2015) (Challenge 5). Timelines can also be developed using document analysis.…”

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Uncovering the Dynamics of Multi‐Sector Impacts of Hydrological Extremes: A Methods Overview

de Brito,

Sodoge,

Fekete

et al. 2024

Earth's Future

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Hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, can trigger a complex web of compound and cascading impacts (CCI) due to interdependencies between coupled natural and social systems. However, current decision‐making processes typically only consider one impact and disaster event at a time, ignoring causal chains, feedback loops, and conditional dependencies between impacts. Analyses capturing these complex patterns across space and time are thus needed to inform effective adaptation planning. This perspective paper aims to bridge this critical gap by presenting methods for assessing the dynamics of the multi‐sector CCI of hydrological extremes. We discuss existing challenges, good practices, and potential ways forward. Rather than pursuing a single methodological approach, we advocate for methodological pluralism. We see complementary or even convergent roles for analyses based on quantitative (e.g., data‐mining, systems modeling) and qualitative methods (e.g., mental models, qualitative storylines). The data‐driven and knowledge‐driven methods provided here can serve as a useful starting point for understanding the dynamics of both high‐frequency CCI and low‐likelihood but high‐impact CCI. With this perspective, we hope to foster research on CCI to improve the development of adaptation strategies for reducing the risk of hydrological extremes.

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Uncovering the Dynamics of Multi‐Sector Impacts of Hydrological Extremes: A Methods Overview

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Sodoge,

Fekete

et al. 2024

Earth's Future

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“…This approach involves plotting events related to a problem on a graph by considering participants' story- telling as a means to document past experiences (Sheridan et al, 2011), present, or project possible futures. Timelining has been successfully used in group settings to examine climate change impacts (e.g., Dolan & Walker, 2006;Schmook et al, 2023) and to understand the impact of recovery measures on disaster occurrence (e.g., Sword-Daniels et al, 2015) (Challenge 5). Timelines can also be developed using document analysis.…”

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Uncovering the dynamics of multi-sector impacts of hydrological extremes: a methods overview

Brito

Sodoge

Fekete

et al. 2023

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Hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, can trigger a complex web of compound and cascading impacts due to interdependencies between coupled natural and social systems. However, current decision-making processes typically only consider one impact and disaster event at a time, ignoring causal chains, feedback loops, and conditional dependencies between impacts. Analyses capturing these complex patterns across space and time are thus needed to better inform effective adaptation planning. This perspective paper aims to bridge this critical gap by presenting methods for assessing the dynamics of the multi-sector compound and cascading impacts (CCI) of hydrological extremes. We discuss existing challenges, good practices, and potential ways forward. Rather than pursuing a single methodological approach, we advocate for methodological pluralism. We see complementary roles for analyses building on quantitative (e.g. data-mining, systems modeling) and qualitative methods (e.g. mental models, qualitative storylines). We believe the data-driven and knowledge-driven methods provided here can serve as a useful starting point for understanding the dynamics of both high-frequency CCI and low-likelihood but high-impact CCI. With this perspective, we hope to foster research on CCI to improve the development of adaptation strategies for reducing the risk of hydrological extremes.

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Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary

Spangler

Burchfield

Radel

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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The simplification of agricultural landscapes, particularly in the United States (US), has contributed to alarming rates of environmental degradation. As such, increasing agrobiodiversity throughout the US agri-food system is a crucial goal toward mitigating these harmful impacts, and crop diversification is one short-term mechanism to begin this process. However, despite mounting evidence of its benefits, crop diversification strategies have yet to be widely adopted in the US. Thus, we explore barriers and bridges to crop diversification for current farmers, focused on the Magic Valley of southern Idaho—a region with higher crop diversity relative to the US norm. We address two main research questions: (1) how and why do farmers in this region enact temporal and/or spatial strategies to manage crop diversity (the present) and (2) what are the barriers and bridges to alternative diversification strategies (the imaginary)? Through a political agroecology and spatial imaginaries lens, we conducted and analyzed 15 farmer and 14 key informant interviews between 2019 and 2021 to gauge what farmers are doing to manage crop diversity (the present) and how they imagine alternative landscapes (the imaginary). We show that farmers in this region have established a regionally diversified landscape by relying primarily on temporal diversification strategies—crop rotations and cover cropping—but do not necessarily pair these with other spatial diversification strategies that align with an agroecological approach. Furthermore, experimenting with and imagining new landscapes is possible (and we found evidence of such), but daily challenges and structural constraints make these processes not only difficult but unlikely and even “dangerous” to dream of. Therein, we demonstrate the importance of centering who is farming and why they make certain decisions as much as how they farm to support agroecological transformation and reckoning with past and present land use paradigms to re-imagine what is possible. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13593-022-00833-0.

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In the Shadow of the Green Revolution: Constrained Spatial Imaginaries and Smallholder Farming in Guatemala’s Pacific Lowlands

Cited by 5 publications

References 51 publications

Uncovering the Dynamics of Multi‐Sector Impacts of Hydrological Extremes: A Methods Overview

Uncovering the Dynamics of Multi‐Sector Impacts of Hydrological Extremes: A Methods Overview

Uncovering the dynamics of multi-sector impacts of hydrological extremes: a methods overview

Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary

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