Smallholder Farmers in Rwanda

Activity: Mapping

Mapping the socio-ecological systems in Southwest Rwanda: before, during, and the imagined after of the “African Green Revolution”

Discussion Questions: 

How do we understand specific versus generic adaptive capacities in the context of this case study?

Does this case study support Resilience Thinking’s critique of the status quo?

How might we imagine a just agricultural adaptation in Rwanda? Who is responsible for building adaptive capacity?

What various human and ecological needs are being balanced in this case study?

Further Reading

1. Nathan clay and Kayla Yurco. "Beyond the 'gender gap' in agriculture: Africa's Green Revolution and gendered rural transformation in Rwanda."

2. United Nations publication: Building an Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.

3. United Nations Policy Brief: Redesigning the Rwanda Crop Intensification Programme: Subsidy Scheme for Biodiversity and Equity.

4.  Maldonado-Torres, N. (2007). ON THE COLONIALITY OF BEING: Contributions to the development of a concept1. Cultural Studies, 21(2–3), 240–270. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162548.

5. Timothy Wise, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food, Ch 2: “The Malawi Miracle and the Limits of Africa’s Green Revolution."

6. Rob Dunn, Never Out of Season, How Having the the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and out Future.

7. Shannon O'Lear. (2015) "Climate science and slow violence: A view from political geography and STS on mobilizing technoscientific ontologies of climate change" Political Geography Vol. 52, Pages 4-13 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629815000062?via%3Dihub