Abstract Climate-smart agriculture has emerged as a way of increasing food productivity, building resiliency to climate change and reducing carbon emissions.Despite rapid technical advances, research on climate-smart agriculture has arguably under-theorized the socio-political processes that continue to marginalize vulnerable groups such as smallholder farmers.This review discusses the potential usefulness of political ecology perspectives for improving climate-smart agriculture.Political ecology theory elucidates how three interrelated socio-political processes that perpetuate smallholder farmer vulnerability significantly influence climate-smart responses: inequality, unequal power relations and social injustice.
The article discusses these three inter-connected political ecology factors using san jose sharks trucker hat a number of examples from the Green Revolution, smallholder farming communities, and indigenous farmers.In comparison to conventional technical approaches, our article argues that Climate-Smart Agriculture needs to consider political ecology perspectives at different levels to explore the vulnerability of smallholder farmers to pete cromer rainbow lorikeet current and future climate change impacts.Interventions to support climate-smart agriculture should examine local risks, specificities and priorities of smallholder farmers.The article concludes with a renewed call for concepts of inequality, unequal power relations and social injustice to be embedded into both the policy and practice of climate smart agriculture.
Keywords: climate-smart agriculture, equality, political ecology, power, smallholder, social justice.