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Breaking the trap: CGIAR experiences in resilience research
1) The document discusses research by the CGIAR on resilience and avoiding "traps" that prevent social-ecological systems from transitioning to more productive and sustainable states. 2) It identifies several types of "resilience traps" that systems can fall into including risk traps, consumption/production traps, variability traps, resource access traps, policy traps, and cultural traps. 3) The research aims to apply a "resilience lens" to better understand these traps and identify pathways for increasing resilience through improved resource management to lift systems out of undesirable low-productive situations.
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- 1. Breaking the trap:CGIAR experiences in resilience research Alain Vidal Resilience 2014, Montpellier
- 2. Resilience, cattle andtermites S SWater depletion, grazing pressure, loss of soil organic matter Manure applied through night corralling provides a preferred diet for the termites Wet Season: Dry matter 4.5 T/ha 9 species / m² Wet Season: Dry matter 0 T/ha 0 species / m²
- 3. CPWF’s resilience lens •Facing situations where social-ecological systems trapped on undesirable low-productive pathways • Research cannot halt the factors contributing to agricultural land degradation (climate change, population growth, and migration) • CPWF refocused on increasing the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production
- 4. Regime shifts -moving upwards while preventing falling over the edge
- 5. BSMs in theAndes trigger change between alternate resilient states S Annual net income: US$ 2,183/ha Annual net income: US$ 1,870/ha Conservation agriculture and paramo restoration supported by revolving fund Farmers‘ insufficient gain and risk aversion: only 11% converted Revolving fund credit: +180 farmers /year Potato cropping, grazing pressure, degradation of paramo
- 6. Goats markets inZimbabwe improve farmers’ resilience S SRecurrent droughts, increasing climate variability, poor connection to markets Improved livestock: US$ 50 per goat Goat mortality down to 10% Rainfed maize cropping: US$16/ha Livestock: US$10 per goat Local markets Producers self-esteem Improved rangeland production replacing US$15 / goat of stock feed value
- 7. Fair enough but… Howabout traps ?
- 8. Resilience traps identifiedby CPWF • Risk traps High risk situations (eg drought, health risk, financial collapse) reduce internal incentives to invest in the system • Consumption/production traps Rate of bio-resources consumption too close to the production rate Resource mining
- 9. Resilience traps identifiedby CPWF • Variability traps Small investments do take place but variability (eg climate) and resulting losses of capital limit development changes • Resource access traps Despite high productivity farmers have too small land lots which results in a cap of revenues
- 10. Resilience traps identifiedby CPWF • Policy traps Disenabling policies and lack of transparency prevents markets and resources being used effectively • Cultural traps Mindsets prevent change, eg “food security means production not income”
- 11. Concluding questions • Arewe ready to test how resilience thinking could help stop digging and identify pathways to sustainable intensification? • Has anyone been successful using a ‘resilience lens’ to get an ecosystem and/or a poor community out of any of these traps?