Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture

IF 6.6 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI:10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101520

Gautam Prateek

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The sixth IPCC report highlights the profound challenges climate change poses to smallholder agriculture, particularly in South Asia. This review critically examines pathways for climate-resilient development (CRD) in smallholder agriculture through a traditional literature review of 98 key studies/reports, supplemented by computational text analysis of 3822 SCOPUS abstracts. Two dominant paradigms emerge: the productivity-market-technology approach, emphasizing efficiency, and the sustainability-justice-community approach, focusing on equity. While the former dominates, critical gaps persist in addressing smallholder heterogeneity, diverse livelihoods, and the integration of smallholder-specific knowledge with climate and crop science. Structural vulnerabilities, gender equity, and community-led approaches are similarly underexplored. The review highlights tensions in the existing scholarship between equity and efficiency in conceptualizing resilience and calls for expanding the CRD-smallholder-agriculture discourse to better reflect the complexities and diverse realities of smallholder systems.

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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13.80

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： "Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST)" is a distinguished journal within Elsevier's esteemed scientific publishing portfolio, known for its dedication to high-quality, reproducible research. Launched in 2010, COSUST is a part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite, which is recognized for its editorial excellence and global impact. The journal specializes in peer-reviewed, concise, and timely short reviews that provide a synthesis of recent literature, emerging topics, innovations, and perspectives in the field of environmental sustainability.