How to adapt climate change and preserve household development resilience in ecologically vulnerable area is a pressing issue. As for pastoralists in ecologically vulnerable and arid regions, drought is the most prevalent and severe climate shock. However, there is a lack of direct evidence regarding to effective measures to help households to adapt climate shocks. Thus, this study presents...
1. INTRODUCTION
Food systems constitute a relevant part of the political, social, economic, ecological and cultural fabric of communities (Ruggeri Laderchi et al., 2024). They could be described as social-ecological complex systems (Allen & Prosperi, 2016; Folke, 2006) composed by a multiplicity of sub-systems where a galaxy of relationships between the social sphere and the biosphere...
Based on fieldwork conducted in B Village, Qilian County, Qinghai Province, and Y Village, Minle County, Gansu Province, we shed new lights on how agriculturalists and pastoralists integrate resources to construct adaptive strategies, and how these strategies interact and perform agro-pastoral coupling to overcome the resource dilemma. Under the pressure from natural disasters, anti-grazing...
Introduction
Carbon farming, involving the adoption of agricultural practices aiming at capturing carbon in soils, is a cornerstone of European climate strategies such as the Green Deal. Farmers are rewarded with carbon credits, which are purchased by companies on the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM)(1,2). It may also lead to other benefits such as improved soil fertility and food security...