Smallholder telecoupling and potential sustainability

Zimmerer, Karl S.; Lambin, Éric F.; Vanek, Steven J.

doi:10.5751/es-09935-230130

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“…In a previous smallholder telecoupling literature [41], telecoupling is interchangeably used as "global receiving system." Such usage seems to craft research questions from the perspective of the smallholder systems in their most apparent form: acting as the sending system for agricultural goods.…”

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“…For smallholder studies, the integration in the globalized world is often overlooked, and most smallholder perspectives focus on their local context/conditions (place-based) without considering how flows/interactions with external systems affect these location-specific outcomes. Zimmerer, Lambin, and Vanek [41] is a great start that draws attention to study current smallholders' challenges using the lens of telecoupling. With rich literature review and four cases, the authors proposed an integrated multilevel smallholder framework [41].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Zimmerer, Lambin, and Vanek [41] is a great start that draws attention to study current smallholders' challenges using the lens of telecoupling. With rich literature review and four cases, the authors proposed an integrated multilevel smallholder framework [41]. Their new smallholder framework linked smallholders to a "global receiving system," via the mediation from "public and private institutions" and local spatial interactions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We employ a synthesizing approach and use the metacoupling framework to synthesize selected studies focused on smallholder systems. Building on the insights from existing research such as [27,41], we aim to apply the metacoupling framework to different cases and demonstrate how to use this framework to synthesize smallholder sustainability issues in a larger perspective than the place-based context. Particularly, we want to focus on the following understudied research questions:…”

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Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

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Increasing connections and influences from near to far have changed social structures, access to natural resources, and essential livelihoods of smallholders (i.e., those with incomes generated primarily from natural resources on small rural properties). However, the potential benefits and negative impacts from these connections to smallholders' livelihoods and social-ecological effects remain understudied. In this paper, we applied the frameworks of pericoupling and telecoupling (human-nature interactions between adjacent and distant systems, respectively) to systematically investigate how the flows linking smallholder systems to other systems affect their livelihoods, and causing varying economic, social, and environmental effects from case to case. We synthesized 12 cases of smallholder systems around the world that are linked to adjacent and distant systems through flows of goods, people, resources, and/or information. In each case, we summarized smallholders' agency, i.e., capability on the formation or operation of these flows, and the changes on livelihoods on the economic, social, and environment effects. Results suggest that strong smallholder agency is associated more with positive than negative effects. Smallholders with medium to high agency have greater overall well-being within the area of interest. Smallholders integrated in pericoupled systems often have strong agency. Being spillover systems in an intercoupled system (e.g., large-scale agricultural investments) can often cause negative outcomes unless smallholders have additional pericoupling flows. Our findings suggest one potential approach to ending poverty and increasing well-being for smallholders is creating and increasing pericoupling flows to empower smallholders for desired livelihood and social-ecological outcomes.

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Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

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“…The way in which spillover systems are treated in the telecoupling framework differs from related concepts that have long been discussed in the literature such as "externalities" and "leakage" in that causes and effects associated with the spillover are explicitly analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective and using a systems approach [78]. For instance, smallholder farmers around the world undergo complex decision-making processes regarding whether to embrace new farming techniques in an era of rapid agricultural change [83]. Their decisions and behaviors have spillover effects on adjacent farms around them that can be best understood by explicitly examining the interplay among social and ecological causes and effects at different spatial scales [83].…”

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A Synthesis of Opportunities for Applying the Telecoupling Framework to Marine Protected Areas

2019

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The world’s oceans face unprecedented anthropogenic threats in the globalized era that originate from all over the world, including climate change, global trade and transportation, and pollution. Marine protected areas (MPAs) serve important roles in conservation of marine biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, but their success is increasingly challenged in the face of such large-scale threats. Here, we illustrate the utility of adopting the interdisciplinary telecoupling framework to better understand effects that originate from distant places and cross MPA boundaries (e.g., polluted water circulation, anthropogenic noise transport, human and animal migration). We review evidence of distal processes affecting MPAs and the cutting-edge approaches currently used to investigate these processes. We then introduce the umbrella framework of telecoupling and explain how it can help address knowledge gaps that exist due to limitations of past approaches that are centered within individual disciplines. We then synthesize five examples from the recent telecoupling literature to explore how the telecoupling framework can be used for MPA research. These examples include the spatial subsidies approach, adapted social network analysis, telecoupled qualitative analysis, telecoupled supply chain analysis, and decision support tools for telecoupling. Our work highlights the potential for the telecoupling framework to better understand and address the mounting and interconnected socioeconomic and environmental sustainability challenges faced by the growing number of MPAs around the world.

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Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use

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2021

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Tropical forests are under increasing pressure, but conservation interventions have had only limited success in mitigating deforestation and ecosystem degradation. Over the past decade, however, jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use have attracted increasing attention as a potential alternative to traditional conservation strategies. These approaches operate within formal administrative boundaries and seek to establish policies and practices that apply to all stakeholders. We compiled a global database of conservation initiatives and developed a definition and typology for jurisdictional approaches; of the 80 initiatives included in our database, 25 met this definition. We categorized these jurisdictional approaches according to two criteria: the focus of the intervention and the degree of government involvement. These jurisdictions encompassed approximately 40% of global tropical forests, with most experiencing higher‐than‐average deforestation rates. Although jurisdictional approaches harbor the potential to overcome the limitations of previous approaches, numerous challenges for implementation and operation remain. In addition, because most jurisdictional initiatives currently in operation are still early in their lifecycles, the long‐term effectiveness of this strategy has yet to be proven.

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Smallholder telecoupling and potential sustainability

Cited by 54 publications

References 85 publications

Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

A Synthesis of Opportunities for Applying the Telecoupling Framework to Marine Protected Areas

Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use

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