Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture

IF 6.6 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI:10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101520

Gautam Prateek

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Abstract

The sixth IPCC report highlights the profound challenges climate change poses to smallholder agriculture, particularly in South Asia. This review critically examines pathways for climate-resilient development (CRD) in smallholder agriculture through a traditional literature review of 98 key studies/reports, supplemented by computational text analysis of 3822 SCOPUS abstracts. Two dominant paradigms emerge: the productivity-market-technology approach, emphasizing efficiency, and the sustainability-justice-community approach, focusing on equity. While the former dominates, critical gaps persist in addressing smallholder heterogeneity, diverse livelihoods, and the integration of smallholder-specific knowledge with climate and crop science. Structural vulnerabilities, gender equity, and community-led approaches are similarly underexplored. The review highlights tensions in the existing scholarship between equity and efficiency in conceptualizing resilience and calls for expanding the CRD-smallholder-agriculture discourse to better reflect the complexities and diverse realities of smallholder systems.

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生产力与可持续性：南亚小农农业气候适应型发展模式

IPCC第六次报告强调了气候变化给小农农业带来的深刻挑战，特别是在南亚。本文通过对98项关键研究/报告的传统文献综述，并辅以对3822篇SCOPUS摘要的计算文本分析，对小农农业气候适应型发展（CRD）的途径进行了批判性研究。出现了两种主要的范式：强调效率的生产力-市场-技术方法和注重公平的可持续性-正义-社区方法。虽然前者占主导地位，但在解决小农异质性、多样化的生计以及将小农特有知识与气候和作物科学相结合方面，仍然存在重大差距。结构性脆弱性、性别平等和社区主导的方法同样未得到充分探讨。这篇综述强调了现有学术研究中公平与效率之间在弹性概念上的紧张关系，并呼吁扩大关于农村发展与小农农业的论述，以更好地反映小农系统的复杂性和多样性现实。

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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13.80

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2.80%

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： "Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST)" is a distinguished journal within Elsevier's esteemed scientific publishing portfolio, known for its dedication to high-quality, reproducible research. Launched in 2010, COSUST is a part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite, which is recognized for its editorial excellence and global impact. The journal specializes in peer-reviewed, concise, and timely short reviews that provide a synthesis of recent literature, emerging topics, innovations, and perspectives in the field of environmental sustainability.