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1 Thompson, W. J.; Blaser-Hart, W. J.; Joerin, J.; Krutli, P.; Dawoe, E.; Kopainsky, B.; Chavez, E.; Garrett, R. D.; Six, J. 2022. Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa. Journal of Land Use Science, 17(1):407-428. (Special issue: Women in Land Science) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2022.2097455]

Climate resilience ; Sustainability ; Certification ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Cocoa ; Climate change ; Food systems ; Governance ; Livelihoods ; Indicators ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Rural areas ; Fertilizers ; Econometric models / Ghana / Juabeso / Fanteakwa South / Abuakwa North / Suhum

(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051391)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1747423X.2022.2097455
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Sustainability certification has been posited as a key governance mechanism to enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. Whilst many certifications now include climate resilience in their standards, their ability to deliver this for smallholders remains untested. We take the case of the 2015–16 drought-shock to cocoa production in Ghana to examine whether certification can enhance smallholder climate resilience. We used a novel transdisciplinary methodology combining participatory outcome definition with household surveys, biophysical measurements, satellite data and counterfactual analysis. Utilising our climate resilience framework, we find that certification has a strong effect on the adoption of basic management, e.g. fertilization, but a weak influence on more complex resilience strategies, e.g. agroforest diversification. Beyond certification, we identify strong regional patterns in resilience. These findings suggest that certification has some potential to enhance climate resilience but greater focus on facilitating diversification and adapting to sub-national contexts is required for improved effectiveness.

2 Sekabira, H.; Feleke, S.; Manyong, V.; Spath, L.; Krutli, P.; Simbeko, G.; Vanlauwe, B.; Six, J. 2024. Circular bioeconomy practices and their associations with household food security in four RUNRES African city regions. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, 3(4):e0000108. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000108]

Household food security ; Associations ; Bioeconomy ; Circular economy ; Organic wastes ; Food consumption ; Food systems ; Food insecurity ; Indicators / Africa

(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052777)

https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransformation/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pstr.0000108&type=printable
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Achieving the United Nation’s 2030 agenda which aims, among other goals, to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, requires a sustainable resource use model deployed at scale across global food systems. A circular bioeconomy (CBE) model of resource use has been proposed to reuse of organic waste in agricultural production to enhance food security. However, despite several initiatives recently introduced towards establishing a CBE in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), minimal scientific efforts have been dedicated to understanding the association of CBE practices and food security. This study use data from 777 smallholder farm households from DRC, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and South Africa, to examine associations between three CBE practices (use of organic waste as compost, as livestock feed, and sorting waste) and household food security. Using different regression and propensity score matching models (PSM). Result reveal that using CBE practices more likely adds a 0.203 score of food insecurity access prevalence (HFIAP), 1.283 food insecurity access scale (HFIAS-score) and 0.277 for household dietary diversity score (HDDS) among households using CBE practiced groups. Associations regarding using organic waste as compost are generally positive but insignificant, while those with sorting waste are significantly and consistently negative. Thus, CBE innovations aiming to enhance household food security could prioritize organic waste valorization into livestock feed consider socio economic aspects such as access to land, access to market, education level, using mobile phone, income and city regions where interventions took place. However, prior sorting of waste is necessary to enable effective waste valorization.