This infographic shows how ecosystem services contribute to agricultural productivity and provides examples of which agricultural practices can improve the delivery of ecosystem services.
From April 28 - May 31, 2014 the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog will feature blog posts that focus on key resilience concepts in agricultural systems.
Many traditional farming communities adopt new crops and varieties, while retaining the ones that are already there. As this change is a managed change, farmers are actually improving to the resilience of agricultural systems.
in 2009, CPWF redefined its objective “to increase the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production.” Why did it matter at that time, and why does it still matter today for water, food and ecosystems?
Without quantifiable metrics, will resilience languish as a buzz-word with no lasting impact? Resilience, as a unifying concept, has rapidly become a prominent targeted development goal. However, we have yet to produce a set of agreed upon metrics to quantify resilience, though we have made significant progress in this field
In our globalised society, there are virtually no ecosystems that are not shaped by people, and no human being can survive without the services ecosystems provide. A resilience thinking approach investigates how interacting systems of people and nature can best be managed in the face of disturbances, surprises and uncertainty.
As WLE invites partners to embark on a month-long blog discussion of Resilience, I would like to share an experience that galvanized my conceptual thinking around resilience.
Many lessons and experiences remain locked away in long technical and scientific reports that development managers and decision makers might find difficult to access and learn from. Find out how CPWF worked to make knowledge more accessible.
To improve our resiliency to a shifting climate and extend our growing seasons, we must seriously consider not just pumping groundwater to the surface, as we have always done, but also storing today’s surface waters underground to ensure our water security for tomorrow.
For the first time, in the latest assessment of the IPCC on impacts and adaptation, there is a much greater recognition that for poor people living precarious lives, things look much more complicated than they do in climate models. It is a breath of fresh air.
As the CPWF comes to an end, it is appropriate to take stock and reflect on its ten-year legacy. For me, it is also a time to reflect on the personal transformation that I have undergone in my perceptions and views of CPWF since becoming familiar with the program and its activities.
