The importance of ecosystem services to smallholder farmers in climate change adaptation: learning from an ecosystem-based adaptation pilot in Vietnam

Tran, Lien; Brown, Kathryn

doi:10.1007/s10457-018-0302-y

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“…In contrast to the pandemic, the effects of climate change are constant and will continue disrupting the natural ecosystem of communities. As a result, there is a large volume of the literature concerning climate adaptation and mitigation processes in response to the threat of climate change (the indicative studies include Pyke et al, 2016 ; Sanogo et al, 2016 ; Lamsal et al, 2017 ; Weir, 2017 ; Anjos & de Toledo, 2018 ; Moshofsky et al, 2018 ; Tang et al, 2018 ; Miranda et al, 2019 ; Tran & Brown, 2019 ; Turner et al, 2020 ; and Petraglia et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community eco-tourism in rural Peru: Resilience and adaptive capacities to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change

Campos

Werner-Masters

Cordova-Buiza

et al. 2021

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has been devastating for international tourism, adversely affecting destinations, organizations, and local communities. In particular, the crisis highlights the need for local communities reliant on rural tourism to enhance their resilience to the risks simultaneously generated by the pandemic and accelerating impacts of climate change. This is important as the effects of these hazards are intertwined and cannot be treated in isolation. We explore community responses and resilience through case study Quebrada Verde, Peru, a small rural community in the Andes Mountains. Specifically, we report on a qualitative examination involving in-depth semi-structured interviews and focus groups with key informants from the community, supplemented by relevant documentary analysis. Drawing on community resilience and social networks perspectives, we find that the community's preparedness to both threats is unbalanced. On one hand, the community eco-tourism system has developed sufficient tools to adapt to the temporary effects of COVID-19 derived from the community's self-organization skills and topophilia. Specifically, the community possesses a cohesive social structure, it has a solid cultural identity rooted in its customs and traditions, and maintains a social humour that enables it to see the positive aspects of adversity. On the other hand, the analysis of the measures towards strengthening the resilience to climate change delivers mixed results. In particular, the relationship that the community has built with other local organizations to successfully prevent and react to climate change is weak. Therefore, stronger efforts towards bridging this gap must be implemented in order to sustain the wider social network of such organizations, of which the community is a part. This would enable further development and implementation of appropriate risk management strategies to counteract climate change, enhancing the community's resilience of its eco-tourism system to this emergent threat. Importantly, this finding might be relevant to other local communities seeking to improve their resilience to COVID-19 and climate change.

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Community eco-tourism in rural Peru: Resilience and adaptive capacities to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change

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Cordova-Buiza

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Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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“…For example, it was reported that 181 species of plants belonging to 146 genera and 76 families were found in the linpan landscape of Chengdu Plain which forms diverse vegetation types [ 43 , 44 ] and provide ideal habitats for birds and other wildlife. The mixture of different species in the agricultural landscape thus could effectively ensure food safety through continuing the harvest of diverse products under climate variations [ 19 ], and this kind of ecosystem complex can take advantage of the mutual benefits between species and their complementary use of resources. Liu et al, (2013) demonstrated that a diversified cultivation model, such as legumes planted between fruit trees, could promote fruit yield through nitrogen supply by the nitrogen fixation capacity of legumes [ 45 ].…”

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“…Initially, several EbA studies were conducted in poor or high-altitude rural areas, such as Tegucigalpa in Honduras [ 18 ], Bash-Kaiyndy in Kyrgyzstan [ 11 ], Vu Quang district in Vietnam [ 19 ] and Troms and Finnmark County in Norway [ 12 ], and the proposed EbA strategies were also proven to effectively improve the ability of local farmers to cope with climate change. Recently, growing attention have also been paid to EbA strategies at an urban level for addressing climate change challenges [ 20 ].…”

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Farmers’ Strategies to Climate Change and Urbanization: Potential of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in Rural Chengdu, Southwest China

Zhong

Sun

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is emerging as a cost-effective approach for helping people adapt to climate and non-climate changes. Nowadays, climate change and urbanization have affected agricultural systems, but it is not clear how rural communities have responded or adapted to those changes. Here, we chose two typical villages in the Chengdu Plain, southwest China, through sociological surveys on 90 local farmers with a semi-structured questionnaire, participatory observation, geospatial analysis of land use and land cover, and a literature review, to explore the local people’s perception of changes or disturbances and their adaptation strategies from the perspective of EbA. The results showed that climate change and urbanization had impacted agricultural systems dramatically in the last 40 years. In two case-study sites, climate change and urbanization were perceived by most local farmers as the main drivers impacting on agricultural production, but various resource-use models containing abundant traditional knowledge or practices as well as modern tools, such as information communication technology (ICT), were applied to adapt to these changes. Moreover, culture service through the adaptive decoration of rural landscapes is becoming a new perspective for implementing an EbA strategy. Finally, our findings highlighted the potential value of an EbA strategy for sustaining urban-rural integrated development and enhancing the resilience of agricultural systems.

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“…There has been increased emphasis in the forest restoration literature on realizing collective benefits, including support for community engagement (Chazdon et al 2017). However, despite having several forest protection co-management and community forestry models, few studies examined communal social benefits (as opposed to individual ones) from tree planting programs, such as recreational opportunities provided by reforested areas (Tran and Brown 2019). Overall, outcomes have generally been mixed for community forestry and co-management models, which have suffered from lack of active participation Sikor 2006, Yamanoshita andAmano 2012).…”

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Assessing the Social Benefits of Tree Planting by Smallholders in Vietnam: Lessons for Large-Scale Reforestation Programs

McElwee

Nghi²

2021

Ecological Rest.

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In recent decades, Vietnam has embarked on several ambitious projects, including restoration of coastal mangroves and the expansion of national forest cover through large-scale tree planting efforts. Much of the work is being carried out by individual households, who now likely control a majority of planted productive forest land. Yet despite the strong role for smallholders, questions have been raised about the social benefits of their participation, and insufficient attention has been paid to whether these programs are truly aimed at restoration or more narrowly at plantation development only. This paper assesses several of Vietnam's recent tree-planting projects against the Society for Ecological Restoration's standards, particularly around social benefits, and concludes that Vietnam is failing on most measures, ranging from stakeholder engagement to natural capital benefits. Overall, smallholders mostly view the tree planting projects in terms of financial benefits from short rotation cycles for pulp and woodchip mills, which offer low value, few social benefits, and little ecological restoration potential. The paper argues that Vietnam would benefit from more engaged restoration activities that pay attention to social benefits for smallholders, ensuring more long-term sustainability for both people and forests.

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The importance of ecosystem services to smallholder farmers in climate change adaptation: learning from an ecosystem-based adaptation pilot in Vietnam

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Community eco-tourism in rural Peru: Resilience and adaptive capacities to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change

Community eco-tourism in rural Peru: Resilience and adaptive capacities to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change

Farmers’ Strategies to Climate Change and Urbanization: Potential of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in Rural Chengdu, Southwest China

Assessing the Social Benefits of Tree Planting by Smallholders in Vietnam: Lessons for Large-Scale Reforestation Programs

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