A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Rice Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationThe Nordic Africa Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeClimate Resilienceen_US
cg.contributor.initiativeLivestock and Climateen_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.creator.identifierEleanor Fisher: 0000-0001-6042-6706en_US
cg.creator.identifierPatti Petesch: 0000-0001-6444-9032en_US
cg.creator.identifierRenee Bullock: 0000-0001-9561-0394en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100272en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.journalCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainabilityen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformClimate Changeen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen_US
cg.volume8en_US
dc.contributor.authorPetesch, Pattien_US
dc.contributor.authorFisher, Eleanoren_US
dc.contributor.authorBullock, Reneeen_US
dc.contributor.authorOlivia, Ebenstål Almeidaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T15:41:06Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-23T15:41:06Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/169772en_US
dc.titleA field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communitiesen_US
dcterms.abstractGlobal climate policies recognize the urgent need to address the inequitable impacts of climate change on smallholder agricultural communities, but there is limited understanding of how to accomplish this in practice. We contribute to closing this gap through the design of a participatory qualitative methodology intended to nurture locally-led “transformative adaptation pathways” that strengthen social equity and sustainability. Our conceptual framework draws upon theories of social equity and justice rooted in participatory parity—values and norms that encourage people to interact with one another as equals and synergistically nurture recognitional, distributional, representational and intergenerational equities. Recognizing that social equity is enhanced when poor and vulnerable people gain decision-making power that expands their access to resources and opportunities, we question how people understand and experience social equity and its relationship to their capacity to adapt. We also ask how norms about gender, generation, and socio-economic status shape people's understandings and experiences of social equity and adaptation. To address these questions, we illustrate the methodological approach with evidence gathered from pilot tests conducted in smallholder communities of Kenya and Philippines. Our findings show how understandings of fairness provide a basis for learning, eliciting comparative and contextualized findings that can inform community-based adaptation. Overall, we demonstrate that in the face of social processes that typically fuel inequities, participatory tools and learning tactics can serve to empower low-income women and men to identify, contribute to, and monitor actions that nurture their community's progress towards strong and equitable climate adaptation capacity.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.available2024-01-01en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationFisher, Eleanor.; Almeida, Olivia Ebenstål.; Hellin, Jon.; Bullock, Renee. 2024. A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100272en_US
dcterms.issued2024-01-01en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherElesevieren_US
dcterms.subjectclimate change adaptationen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen_US
dcterms.subjectfood securityen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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