Smallholder farmer resilience to extreme weather events in a global food value chain

IF 4.8 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Climatic Change Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI:10.1007/s10584-023-03586-1

William J. Thompson, Varun Varma, Jonas Joerin, Solhanlle Bonilla-Duarte, Daniel P. Bebber, Wilma Blaser-Hart, Birgit Kopainsky, Leonhard Späth, Bianca Curcio, Johan Six, Pius Krütli

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Abstract Extreme weather events have severe impacts on food systems, especially for smallholders in global food value chains (GFVCs). There is an urgent need to understand (a) how climate shocks manifest in food systems, and (b) what strategies can enhance food system resilience. Integrating satellite, household and trade data, we investigate the cascading impacts after two consecutive hurricanes on smallholder banana farmers in Dominican Republic, and determinants of their recovery. We found that farmers experienced an ‘all-or-nothing’ pattern of damage, where 75% of flooded farmers lost > 90% of production. Recovery of regional production indicators took ca. 450 days. However, farm-level recovery times were highly variable, with both topographic and human capital factors determining recovery. Utilising this case study, we show that engaging in a GFVC impeded recovery via ‘double exposure’ of production loss and losing market access. Our results suggest that strategies to enhance resilience, with a particular focus on recovery, in GFVCs should promote trader loyalty, facilitate basin-scale collaboration and expand risk-targeted training.

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全球粮食价值链中小农对极端天气事件的抵御能力

极端天气事件对粮食系统产生严重影响，特别是对全球粮食价值链中的小农。迫切需要了解(a)气候冲击如何在粮食系统中表现出来，以及(b)哪些战略可以增强粮食系统的抵御力。综合卫星、家庭和贸易数据，我们调查了连续两次飓风对多米尼加共和国香蕉小农的连锁影响，以及他们恢复的决定因素。我们发现，农民经历了一种“要么全有要么全无”的损失模式，75%的淹水农民损失了。90%的产量。恢复区域生产指标用了大约450天。然而，农场层面的恢复时间变化很大，地形和人力资本因素都决定了恢复。利用这一案例研究，我们表明，通过生产损失和失去市场准入的“双重暴露”，参与全球价值链阻碍了复苏。我们的研究结果表明，在GFVCs中，提高弹性(特别是恢复)的策略应该促进交易者的忠诚度，促进流域规模的合作，并扩大针对风险的培训。

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Climatic Change 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

4.20%

发文量

180

审稿时长

7.5 months

期刊介绍： Climatic Change is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change - its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions among these. The purpose of the journal is to provide a means of exchange among those working in different disciplines on problems related to climatic variations. This means that authors have an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate-related disciplines and to interested non-disciplinarians, as well as to report on research in which the originality is in the combinations of (not necessarily original) work from several disciplines. The journal also includes vigorous editorial and book review sections.