Researching farmer behaviour in climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture: lessons learned from five case studies

Understanding farmer behaviour is needed for local agricultural systems to produce food sustainably while facing multiple pressures. We synthesize existing literature to identify three fundamental questions that correspond to three distinct areas of knowledge necessary to understand farmer behaviour: 1) decision-making model; 2) cross-scale and cross-level pressures; and 3) temporal dynamics. We use this framework to compare five interdisciplinary case studies of agricultural systems in distinct geographical contexts across the globe. We find that these three areas of knowledge are important to understanding farmer behaviour, and can be used to guide the interdisciplinary design and interpretation of studies in the future. Most importantly, we find that these three areas need to be addressed simultaneously in order to understand farmer behaviour. We also identify three methodological challenges hindering this understanding: the suitability of theoretical frameworks, the trade-offs among methods and the limited timeframe of typical research projects. We propose that a triangulation research strategy that makes use of mixed methods, or collaborations between researchers across mixed disciplines, can be used to successfully address all three areas simultaneously and show how this has been achieved in the case studies. The framework facilitates interdisciplinary research on farmer behaviour by opening up spaces of structured dialogue on assumptions, research questions and methods employed in investigation

Land control dynamics and social-ecological transformations in upland Philippines

10.1080/03066150.2016.1257988The Journal of Peasant Studies444796-81

Interrogating the "Productive" Home Gardener in a Time of Pandemic Lockdown in the Philippines

Food and Foodways283216-22

The Reproductive Climate Concerns of Young, Educated Chinese: `When the Nest is Upset, No Egg is Left Intact?

10.1080/23251042.2022.2132629Environmental Sociology92200-21

Privileged biofuels, marginalized indigenous peoples: The coevolution of biofuels development in the tropics

Biofuels development has assumed an important role in integrating Indigenous peoples and other marginalized populations in the production of biofuels for global consumption. By combining the theories of commoditization and the environmental sociology of networks and flows, the author analyzed emerging trends and possible changes in institutions and behaviors brought about by the introduction of biofuels as a development option on ancestral lands. Using the Indonesian oil palm and the Philippine Jatropha experiences, the author argues that although there are efforts to integrate smallholder systems to the global integrated biofuels network, the effects of commoditization continue to undermine the more sustainable, less commoditized agricultural practices of Indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples and their traditional agricultural practices are at risk of being either phased out from or eventually transformed by the global integrated biofuels network to accommodate large-scale, consolidated biofuel plantation systems. However, there are also indications that persistent criticisms of and enduring reforms in the global integrated biofuels network challenge the future of highly commoditized biofuels. This suggests that the coevolutionary tragectory of both highly commoditized biofuels and noncommoditized indigenous agricultural practices remains uncertain

PRODUCTION AND UTILISATION OF BIODIESEL DERIVED FROM WASTE COOKING OIL : A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF ITS APPLICATION IN MARIKINA CITY, PHILIPPINES

Master'sMASTER OF SCIENC

State versus indigenous peoples’ rights: Comparative analysis of stable system parameters, policy constraints and the process of delegitimation

One of the challenges in understanding politics and public policy is to elucidate the interactions between the policy process and a broader context. In the scholarship on the advocacy coalition framework, this broader context is described as a set of variables called relatively stable parameters and is one of the most understudied areas within the framework. This paper aims to contribute to this area of scholarship by using the case of the indigenous peoples’ rights policy in the Philippines to illustrate the mechanisms that explain how relatively stable parameters are framed and used by political actors to constrain policy change and implementation. In particular, it illustrates that while the minority coalition used incremental shifts in the constitution to pass the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act, the dominant opposing coalition has activated and used relatively stable parameters associated with the Regalian Doctrine to restrict the formulation, prorogate the enactment, and weaken the implementation of the said policy. There were three interrelated mechanisms of constraint employed by the dominant opposing coalition, all of which relate to delegitimation of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act and its implementing agency. © 2014, © 2014 The Editor, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

Transecting "Healthy" and "Sustainable" Food in the Asia Pacific

10.1080/15528014.2020.1713431Food, Culture & Society232102-11