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- Title
Local Management Practices for Dealing with Change and Uncertainty: A Cross-scale Comparison of Cases in Sweden and Tanzania.
- Authors
Tengö, Maria; Belfrage, Kristina
- Abstract
This article focuses on the effectiveness of local agroecosystem management practices for dealing with change and uncertainty, based on across-scale comparison of two cases of small-holder farming in Sweden and Tanzania. The practices are discussed according to how they: build insurance capital during the front-loop through multispecies management and a qualitative understanding of ecological processes and interactions; and build capacity to dampen the effect of disturbance and make reorganization possible. In both case studies, farmers practiced polyculture, which involved mixing crops in the same field space and growing them at different times. In both the cases, the diversification of crops within fields in time and space was applied to reduce the risk of overall crop failure. It is concluded that the iterative processes of farm management provide learning mechanisms for experimentation and the reevaluation of practices in response to ecosystem feedback.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; TANZANIA; ECOSYSTEM management; AGRICULTURAL ecology; UNCERTAINTY; AGRICULTURAL Conservation Program; DECISION making in farm management; AGRICULTURAL economics
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2004, Vol 9, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-00672-090304