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New publication: Rethinking climate resilience in the coffee sector
A new article by Janina Grabs and PACSMAC project partners has been published in World Development: “Resilience of what and for whom? Climate change mitigation and adaptation in the global, Ethiopian, and Tanzanian coffee sectors.”
Drawing on five years of research and a multi-country farmer survey, the article examines how climate change mitigation and adaptation shape the coffee sector across global, national and local scales. The analysis shows that climate resilience is not a uniform concept, but one that takes on different meanings depending on scale and perspective.
The study highlights how policies and interventions aimed at strengthening resilience at one level may create new challenges at another. In particular, global and national priorities do not always align with the realities and needs of smallholder farmers.
By foregrounding farmers’ livelihoods, agency and transformative capacity, the article argues for a broader and more inclusive understanding of climate resilience—one that enables farmers to actively shape adaptation pathways rather than merely maintaining existing production systems.
Focusing on the coffee sectors in Ethiopia and Tanzania, the findings contribute to wider debates on climate change, development and sustainability in global value chains.
🔗 Full article (open access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X25003857
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