Resilience and the Transformation of Food and Land Use Systems. Discussion paper prepared for the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU)

Sperling, F., Rumbaitis del Rio, C., & Laurien, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7329-5864 (2022). Resilience and the Transformation of Food and Land Use Systems. Discussion paper prepared for the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU). International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Concept Resilience

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Abstract

The transformation of food and land use systems has been recognized in its central importance of attaining sustainable development paths. Recent shocks and crises events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war and protracted conflicts, weather and climate extremes, have revealed the vulnerabilities of the current food and land use systems architecture. To secure long-term development gains, the resilience of food and land use systems needs to be strengthened. Reflecting on the evolution of resilience concepts, we argue that resilience building efforts must be seen as an integral part of sustainability transformations of food and land use systems. Resilience should not be understood as a static but as a dynamic, iterative process, which combines elements of absorptive, coping, adaptive and transformative capacities and is evaluated over time in its effectiveness to ensure continuous functionality of food and land use systems in times of rapid change. Here we offer a number of considerations for building resilience into food and land use systems in a dynamic world.

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