Smallholder agriculture
Solution Story: Tanks, tunnels and determination – how rainwater harvesting and greenhouses lift smallholder resilience in the Colombian Andes
This Solution Story describes how rainwater harvesting and greenhouses have been used to enhanced the resilience of smallholder farmers in the Colombian Andes.
Cambodia Horticulture Advancing Income and Nutrition (CHAIN) programme
Watch an inspirational video about the Cambodia Horticulture Advancing Income and Nutrition project - an eight-year market systems development programme to develop the horticultural sector and increase the long-term resilience and food security of smallholder farmers in Northern Cambodia.
From climate risk to climate resilience in northern Zambia
This case study considers how climate farmer field schools were established in Northern Zambia to make climate resilience an on-the-ground reality for smallholder farmers.
Small-scale farmers turn to sericulture farming to adapt to climate change
In Ruiru constituency, some 30 kilometers from Nairobi, a group of small-scale farmers are turning to sericulture farming to cushion themselves from the devastating vagaries of climate change.
Improving smallholder supplier resilience through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing
Improving supplier resilience is important for global food security. If small-scale farmers can enhance their resilience against extreme weather, they are also likely to increase crop yield.
Climate change adaptation readiness in the ASEAN countries
This review looks at the steps taken so far to reduce rural populations’ vulnerability in ASEAN countries, and identifies gaps and key concerns for furture research, action and policy development
Regionalisation of global insights into dryland vulnerability: Better reflecting smallholders’ vulnerability in Northeast Brazil
Global analyses of vulnerability reveal generic insights into the relation between socio-ecological systems and the stress impacting upon them including climate & market variability.
Smallholder agriculture in Northeast Brazil: Assessing heterogeneous human-environmental dynamics.
Abstract: Northeast Brazil is characterised by large natural and socio-economic variance, recurrent droughts and widespread rural poverty. To capture spatial...