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Area of Science:

  • Agricultural Science
  • Sociology
  • Development Studies

Background:

  • Agroecosystem resilience is crucial for sustainable agriculture.
  • Existing frameworks often overlook socio-political factors like agrarian structure and community agency.
  • Peasant communities face challenges in transforming restrictive power structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a conceptual and methodological framework for analyzing agroecosystem resilience.
  • To integrate agrarian structure and peasant community agency as key determinants of resilience.
  • To compare resilience construction in two Latin American peasant communities.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a novel analytical framework incorporating socio-political and biophysical variables.
  • Application of the framework to a comparative case study of peasant communities in Brazil and Colombia.
  • Emphasis on participatory approaches to identify resilience factors.

Main Results:

  • Equitable agrarian structures and strong peasant agency foster greater agroecosystem resilience.
  • Strong agency, exemplified by Brazil, allows for transformation of limiting structural conditions.
  • Key factors influencing resilience include biophysical variables, management, agrarian structure, and agency.

Conclusions:

  • Peasant community agency, particularly when developed through political formation, organization, and women's participation, is vital for building resilience.
  • Resilience construction involves transforming unsustainable power structures, not just adapting to them.
  • A holistic, participatory approach is essential for understanding and enhancing agroecosystem resilience.