Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica

Warner, Benjamin P.; Kuzdas, Christopher; Yglesias, Mariel; Childers, Daniel L.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.002

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“…Transformative adaptation as the necessary final response to escape the impacts of intolerable risks (Warner et al, )…”

Section: Conceptualizing Tamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concept has gained further consideration in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation (SREX) (IPCC, ; IPCC, ). This growing debate includes many dimensions such as understanding and defining TA in the context of agriculture (Adger & Bernett, ; Howden et al, ; IAASTD, ; Kates et al, ), analyzing transformational change as adaptation pathways and understanding the process of transformation, (Fazey et al, ; Mapfumo et al, ; Pelling, O'Brien, & Matyas, ) and identifying and measuring determinants of transformational capacity (Dowd et al, ; Marshall et al, ; Warner, Kuzdas, Yglesias, & Childers, ). In the adaptation literature, many studies have focused on characterizing adaptation actions, understanding the current status of adaptation practices, approaches to adaptation planning and analyzing adaptation literature from a typological perspective to categorize adaptation research into different categories such as incremental or transformational (Basset & Fogelman, ; Biagini, Bierbaum, Stults, Dobardzic, & McNeeley, ; Bizikova, Parry, Dekens, & Echeverria, ; Ford et al, ; Ford, Ford, & Paterson, ; Ford, Pearce, & Ford, ; Lwasa, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Transformational adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change

Panda

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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This study explores the increasing use of the concept of "transformational adaptation" (TA) in the context of agriculture, analyzing its conceptualization and applications. While TA is appealing as a concept that involves the implementation of adaptation actions in different ways through small adjustments from current technological and economic approaches, it also raises questions about the complexity of transforming agricultural systems. Although current scientific evidence finds some patterns of climate change impacts on agriculture in the future that can inform the analysis of where and when transformation is required, this evidence is not enough to fully inform practical decision-making at different scales. Part of the problem may be that there has been not enough empirical research focusing on transformational agriculture. For example, from 93 articles in the literature, 39% focus on understanding the concept of TA, 32% focus on analytical and applied aspects of TA, including studies applying global climate models to analyze TA at regional and global scales and to identify broad patterns of TA in agriculture, and only 16% have tried to understand TA from an empirical perspective. While the number of empirical studies of TA is still increasing, there are other issues of TA that have received limited attention, including uncertainty of climate change impacts, policy implications, the transition process, the role of technological innovations, and barriers to TA.

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“…Transformative adaptation as the necessary final response to escape the impacts of intolerable risks (Warner et al, )…”

Section: Conceptualizing Tamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transformational adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change

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2018

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Successful rent seeking by the National Chamber of Rice Producers and ANINSA, which today represents 11 of Costa Rica's 15 arroceras, initiated the gradual displacement of smallholder farmers from the rice market (Rodriguez and Arias, ). This trend has been most significant in the Tempisque River Basin (Warner et al., ), which produces a majority of the country's rice (CONARROZ, ). Arroceras in the region sell their domestically produced rice and imported rice at the same price, making a profit while out‐competing smallholder‐owned and operated cooperatives.…”

Section: –2017: Drought Cafta‐dr and The Arenal‐tempisque Irrigmentioning

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“…In spite of these uncertainties, many smallholder farmers continue to plant rice without securing a contract, and then have to search for arroceras that may purchase their harvests as demand dwindles (Vindas, ). This has led to increased competition among smallholder farmers to sell rice, and many have accrued considerable debt as they are unable to sell their harvests (Warner et al., ).…”

Section: –2017: Drought Cafta‐dr and The Arenal‐tempisque Irrigmentioning

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Smallholder Adaptation to Drought in Costa Rica's Crony Capitalist Rice Economy

Warner¹,

Childers²,

Kuzdas³

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Development and Change

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This article advances theoretical understanding of exclusionary politics in rural locations through an institutional analysis of adaptation to climate change in Costa Rica's rice economy. It describes how crony capitalism evolved in state-sponsored rural development as the national economy moved towards a new neoliberal model. Cronies reorganized rice production and re-appropriated capital flows. As smallholder farmers were marginalized in the rice economy, their reliance on the state for irrigation water made them vulnerable to drought. As the state adapted its water allocation scheme to drought conditions, it determined who would profit and who would lose their livelihood. The authors use this analysis to argue that climate change adaptation is a normative process that may be used to justify coercion and control of specific classes of people. To understand this process, current adaptation frames must be broadened to include the organization of production and the appropriation and realization of capital flows. This broadening facilitates an understanding of how climate change adaptation strategies produce stratified class structures; some classes are made vulnerable to climate change while others profit. Breaking with the common refrain in much of the critical literature on neoliberal development, the authors argue that state responses to neoliberal change -not just neoliberal change itself -must be increasingly incorporated into critical development studies of rural transformations.

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“…There are far fewer studies concerning climate change prediction on a regional scale [11][12][13][14][15]. Similarly, recommendations for agricultural adaptation to climate change usually cover the entire area of the country, as they are needed at local and even individual farm level [16][17][18][19][20]. The impact of climate change on the phenology of crops is still of interest to many researchers [6,[21][22][23].…”

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Assessment of Air Thermal Conditions in the Lowland Part of South-Western Poland for Agriculture Development Purposes

Kalbarczyk

Ziemiańska

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Abstract:The recognition of changes in the course of agricultural thermal periods is vital when it comes to determining appropriate measures for adapting agriculture to climate change. The present study examined changes in air temperature between 1951 and 2014 in the area of south-western Poland. A statistically significant, positive linear trend was confirmed for the annual average temperature, seasonal averages, and monthly averages in the periods spanning February-May and July-August. From the beginning of the 21st century, the period of winter dormancy of plants started increasingly later; farming and plant vegetation periods started increasingly earlier, and the period of active plant growth was prolonged. Among the considered agricultural periods, the growing season was the most prolonged. The duration of the farming period was also significantly longer, but the winter dormancy period was shortened. The negative linear trend of days when the temperature stood at <0 • C was statistically confirmed for temperature in the entire region and most of the stations. In terms of predicting the consequences of the changes that were observed today over the next decades, this is not an easy task. However, the nature of these changes suggests that further cultivation of winter crops may require far-reaching adaptation measures.

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Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica

Cited by 30 publications

References 37 publications

Transformational adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change

Transformational adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change

Smallholder Adaptation to Drought in Costa Rica's Crony Capitalist Rice Economy

Assessment of Air Thermal Conditions in the Lowland Part of South-Western Poland for Agriculture Development Purposes

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