Abstract

SANTIAGO-VERA, Teresita de J.; GARCIA-MILLAN, Máximo A.  and  MICHAEL-ROSSET, Peter. Resilience Approaches to Face Climate Change. agric. soc. desarro [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.4, pp.531-539. ISSN 1870-5472.

Climate change affects directly the food system, reducing food availability and increasing access inequality for unfavorable sectors of the population. Resilience is the ability of the system to absorb disturbances or the promptness to recover from climate disturbances, and when applying the term, social resilience is created as the ability of communities to maintain the social structure in face of external shocks. The objective is to analyze different approaches of this concept in twelve publications that review cases in relation to extreme events caused by climate change and what is the role of peasant and indigenous organizations in them. As a result it was found that half of the studies search in terms of organizations, their analysis, horizontal dialogue, that they are actors and authors, while the rest attempt to instruct and follow scientificism and a vertical discourse of possession of knowledge. In conclusion, it mentions that it is a stage of making visible the postures that come from indigenous and peasant organizations as subjects. The importance of this historical moment is the possibility of taking real actions of climate change mitigation by these subjects that are heard and as a whole take over spaces that were previously denied.

Keywords : agroecology; climate change; epistemology; indigenous and peasant organization.

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