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Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-8726
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1156-7574
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2346-170X
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0006-0666-3878
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-9431
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8300-0721
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7165-885X
While systemic leverage points have been identified as a powerful approach for planning and assessing policies and interventions for sustainability transformations, few studies have explored how leverage points interact and how this affects the desired change. In this study, we explored how the interlinkages between leverage points enable or constrain adaptive capacity to climate change of food system actors. We found 24 interlinkages when drawing on results from semi-structured interviews and a participatory visual art method used in focus groups in a case study in the Northern Region of Ghana. Nine interlinkages were identified as barriers to the adaptive capacity of the communities and actors of the local food system. For example, when studying the interlinkages between the place-specific leverage point of agricultural extension services and the generic leverage point of gender equality, we found that women have less access to agricultural extension services compared with men. Fifteen interlinkages were presented as enabling adaptive capacity; for example, women’s savings groups had many enabling interlinkages with gender equality such as creating unity and empowering the members. We argue that interlinkages between a set of leverage points (1) play a pivotal role in enabling or hindering the leverage points, (2) may instigate a chain of leverage and (3) may affect the system including the related leverage points in a deep or shallow way.
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-8726
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1156-7574
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2346-170X
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0006-0666-3878
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-9431
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8300-0721
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7165-885X
While systemic leverage points have been identified as a powerful approach for planning and assessing policies and interventions for sustainability transformations, few studies have explored how leverage points interact and how this affects the desired change. In this study, we explored how the interlinkages between leverage points enable or constrain adaptive capacity to climate change of food system actors. We found 24 interlinkages when drawing on results from semi-structured interviews and a participatory visual art method used in focus groups in a case study in the Northern Region of Ghana. Nine interlinkages were identified as barriers to the adaptive capacity of the communities and actors of the local food system. For example, when studying the interlinkages between the place-specific leverage point of agricultural extension services and the generic leverage point of gender equality, we found that women have less access to agricultural extension services compared with men. Fifteen interlinkages were presented as enabling adaptive capacity; for example, women’s savings groups had many enabling interlinkages with gender equality such as creating unity and empowering the members. We argue that interlinkages between a set of leverage points (1) play a pivotal role in enabling or hindering the leverage points, (2) may instigate a chain of leverage and (3) may affect the system including the related leverage points in a deep or shallow way.
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-8726
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1156-7574
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2346-170X
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0006-0666-3878
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-9431
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8300-0721
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7165-885X
While systemic leverage points have been identified as a powerful approach for planning and assessing policies and interventions for sustainability transformations, few studies have explored how leverage points interact and how this affects the desired change. In this study, we explored how the interlinkages between leverage points enable or constrain adaptive capacity to climate change of food system actors. We found 24 interlinkages when drawing on results from semi-structured interviews and a participatory visual art method used in focus groups in a case study in the Northern Region of Ghana. Nine interlinkages were identified as barriers to the adaptive capacity of the communities and actors of the local food system. For example, when studying the interlinkages between the place-specific leverage point of agricultural extension services and the generic leverage point of gender equality, we found that women have less access to agricultural extension services compared with men. Fifteen interlinkages were presented as enabling adaptive capacity; for example, women’s savings groups had many enabling interlinkages with gender equality such as creating unity and empowering the members. We argue that interlinkages between a set of leverage points (1) play a pivotal role in enabling or hindering the leverage points, (2) may instigate a chain of leverage and (3) may affect the system including the related leverage points in a deep or shallow way.
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change
Sustain Sci
Rosengren, Linda M. (Autor:in) / Schinko, Thomas (Autor:in) / Sendzimir, Jan (Autor:in) / Mohammed, Abdul-Razak (Autor:in) / Buwah, Rahajatu (Autor:in) / Vihinen, Hilkka (Autor:in) / Raymond, Christopher M. (Autor:in)
Sustainability Science ; 18 ; 2199-2218
01.09.2023
20 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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