Smallholder Farmers' Resilience under the Rural-ecological Crisis
Case Studies from West Java, Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6172187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arya Hadi Dharmawan (0000-0001-7628-6103), Eka Intan Kumala Putri (0000-0002-3995-8318), Dyah Ita Mardiyaningsih (0000-0002-9489-3246) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 17-34 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Social Sustainability in Economic Social and Cultural Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2325-114X • E-ISSN: 2325-1115 |
| Publisher | Common Ground Research Networks (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.18848/2325-1115/cgp/v12i03/17-34 |
| OpenAlex | W2804678278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Recent studies on the resilience of rural farmers in developing regions revealed a close connection between vulnerability, adapted livelihood mechanisms/strategies, and livelihood resilience. Resilience is reflected by the smallholder farmers' capacity for survival. This paper tries to understand the nexus between the ecological vulnerability of a rural agricultural community suffering from detrimental effects of climate variability and farmers' ways of adapting to the changing environment. Drawn from empirical research carried out in several ecologically critical agricultural regions of Indonesia, the study notes several adaptive livelihood mechanisms that reflect the way rural people withstand crises. By adapting to crises, these people constructively build resilience. Three adaptive mechanisms that increase livelihood resilience are economic adaptive mechanisms, ecological adaptive mechanisms, and social adaptive mechanisms. Farmers adopt a set of strategies to survive such as crop diversification, utilizing available natural resources, selling assets, asking for help, borrowing money, and creating and using social-network-based collective action to guarantee social security. The study used qualitative and quantitative methodologies to gain data and information. The study proposes that livelihood resilience develops as a response to ecological vulnerability. The authors conclude that rural livelihood resilience is the result of a set of continual adaptations that smallholder farmers employ to respond to crises and vulnerabilities
Adaptive capacity · Adaptive strategies · Agriculture · Business · Climate change · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economics · Environmental resource management · Food security · Geography · Livelihood · Natural resource economics · Nexus (standard · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Vulnerability (computing · Agricultural Development and Management · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |