Addressing key issues and knowledge gaps in resilience science for agriculture

Shana M. Sundstrom, Tala Awada, Elena M. Bennett, Brandon Bestelmeyer, Jennifer Hodbod, Anna Pacheco, Sheri Spiegal and Craig R. Allen

Agricultural Systems, 2025, vol. 227, issue C

Abstract: Industrialized approaches to agriculture have prioritized stability, efficiency and productivity, which has masked underlying vulnerabilities in our capacity to produce and access food, fiber and fuel, and to maintain farming livelihoods. Resilience science seeks to understand how complex adaptive systems (CAS) such as agroecosystems can buffer disturbances and adapt to stay organized around the same processes and functions, or transform as needed when in an undesirable condition. However, the application of resilience science to agroecosystems has been uneven with more emphasis on recovery, which represents a limited perspective of resilience, rather than on concepts critical to understanding the broader range of possible dynamics in agricultural CAS.

Keywords: Agriculture; Scale; Heterogeneity; Thresholds; Regime shift; Panarchy; Complex adaptive systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104335

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