Didactic toolkit for the design, management and assessment of resilient farming systems
The main objective of this methdological toolkit is to aid farmers and technicians to better understand the principles and mechanisms that underlie the resiliency (or lack of) of farming systems and how agroecological management can enhance the adaptive capacity of farmers to unpredictable and severe climatic variability.
The toolkit can be used for: i) conducting rapid agroecological assessment of farms and their level of vulnerability; ii) initiating a process of agroecological conversion to enhance the response capacity of farmers and thus improve their resiliency of their farming systems; iii) monitoring the trajectory of the farms under agroecological conversion after climatic events such as hurricanes, rain storms and/or droughts.