Unpacking… resilience

Step 1: Identify the key concepts of the indicator

8000 smallholder farmers from Kasaï (DRC) adopt 3 new adaptive responses to face climate-change related shocks and stressors after two years of accompaniment

• smallholder farmers
• adaptive responses 
• climate-change related shocks and stressors

Step 2: Define the key concepts of the indicator

Smallholder farmers: Farmers who own less than 5 hectars of land

Adaptive responses: Refer to the proactive and informed responses taken by individuals, households, communities and higher-level systems to adapt to longer-term trends and changing conditions in order to minimize negative consequences of stressors and shocks, or to exploit positive opportunities.

Shocks: External short-term deviations from long-term trends that have substantial negative effects on people’s current state of well-being, level of assets, livelihoods, or safety, or their ability to withstand future shocks. 

Stressors: Long-term trends or pressures that undermine the stability of a system and increase vulnerability within it.

Now, we continue unpacking each key concept.

Adaptive responses:

• Agriculture and agribusiness
• Urban gardening / backyard gardening
• Harvest water
• Use improved seeds 
• Agriculture intensification
• Increase or decrease of agriculture production areas
• Increase the area under livestock
• Plant new crops or raise new animal species / diversify agriculture production
• Add value to primary production
• Develop new products with value added 
• Engage in collective marketing or new markets
• Seek new markets
• Develop new agribusiness activities / agro-entrepreneurial initiatives 
• Diversify to non-agriculture activities
• Get off-farm paid employment

Climate change related shocks and stressors:

• Unpredictable or erratic rainfall

• Drought

• Flood

• Strong winds

• Heat wave 

• Fire

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