| Titre : | Addressing key issues and knowledge gaps in resilience science for agriculture (2025) |
| Auteurs : | S.M. Sundstrom ; T. Awada ; E.M. Bennett ; B. Bestelmeyer ; J. Hodbod ; A. Pacheco ; S. Spiegal ; C.R. Allen |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Agricultural systems (vol. 227, June 2025) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 104335 |
| Langues : | Anglais |
| Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Catégories principales 06 - AGRICULTURE. FORÊTS. PÊCHES ; 6.1 - Généralités. Situation AgricoleThésaurus IAMM SYSTEME DE PRODUCTION ; AGRICULTURE ; DURABILITE ; RESILIENCE ; AGROECOSYSTEME ; RECHERCHE AGRICOLE |
| Résumé : |
Context - 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.
Objective - The concepts of heterogeneity, scale, thresholds, regime shifts, and panarchy are at the heart of resilience science and central to understanding agroecosystems as CAS. Methods - We conducted a review of published research to assess how these concepts have been used in resilience-based agricultural research to identify potential knowledge gaps and unresolved scientific questions relevant for understanding resilience of agricultural systems as complex adaptive systems. Results and conclusions - We discuss how resilience science understands and utilizes each concept, and then describe its current application in the agricultural literature. The discussion presents critical unanswered questions centered on the relationship between scales and regime shifts, the tension between stability and resilience, heterogeneity at scales larger than a farm, and critical and non-critical thresholds. Significance - We aim to inform future research directions in the application of resilience to agricultural systems. |
| Cote : | En ligne |
| URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104335 |
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