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A field methodology to advance social equity and transformative adaptation to climate change in smallholder communities
Independent researcher, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6042-6706
The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.ORCID iD: 0009-0004-3577-5372
International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines.
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2024 (English)In: Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, E-ISSN 2666-0490, Vol. 8, article id 100272Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Global climate policies recognize the urgent need to address the inequitable impacts of climate change on smallholder agricultural communities, but there is limited understanding of how to accomplish this in practice. We contribute to closing this gap through the design of a participatory qualitative methodology intended to nurture locally-led “transformative adaptation pathways” that strengthen social equity and sustainability. Our conceptual framework draws upon theories of social equity and justice rooted in participatory parity—values and norms that encourage people to interact with one another as equals and synergistically nurture recognitional, distributional, representational and intergenerational equities. Recognizing that social equity is enhanced when poor and vulnerable people gain decision-making power that expands their access to resources and opportunities, we question how people understand and experience social equity and its relationship to their capacity to adapt. We also ask how norms about gender, generation, and socio-economic status shape people’s understandings and experiences of social equity and adaptation. To address these questions, we illustrate the methodological approach with evidence gathered from pilot tests conducted in smallholder communities of Kenya and Philippines. Our findings show how understandings of fairness provide a basis for learning, eliciting comparative and contextualized findings that can inform community-based adaptation. Overall, we demonstrate that in the face of social processes that typically fuel inequities, participatory tools and learning tactics can serve to empower low-income women and men to identify, contribute to, and monitor actions that nurture their community’s progress towards strong and equitable climate adaptation capacity.

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2024. Vol. 8, article id 100272
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Methodology, Social equity, Participation, Gender, Climate, Transformative adaptation, Kenya, Philippines
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Rural
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-3008DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100272OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-3008DiVA, id: diva2:1919203
Available from: 2024-12-07 Created: 2024-12-07 Last updated: 2025-01-16Bibliographically approved

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