Estimating resilience of crop production systems: From theory to practice
Agricultural production systems are sensitive to weather and climate anomalies and extremes as well as to other environmental and socio-economic adverse events. An adequate evaluation of the resilience of such systems helps to assess food security and the capacity of society to cope with the effects of global warming and the associated increase of climate extremes. In addition to crop diversity, the authors claim that strategies aiming at adapting both the crop distribution and the varieties to the changing climate conditions, instead of intensifying the inputs, can increase the crop production resilience by possibly reducing the overall effects of increasing extreme events, while respecting sustainability boundaries.