Climate change, hunger and rural health through the lens of farming styles: An agent-based model to assess the potential role of peasant farming.

ABSTRACT: Undernutrition is a major contributor to the global-burden of disease, and global-level health impact models suggest that climate change-mediated reductions in food quantity and quality will negatively affect it. These models, however, capture just some of the processes that will shape future nutrition. We adopt an alternative standpoint, developing an agent-based model in which producer-consumer smallholders practice different 'styles of farming' in the global food system. The model represents a hypothetical rural community in which 'orphan' (subsistence) farmers may develop by adopting an 'entrepreneurial' style (highly market-dependent) or by maintaining a 'peasant' style (agroecology). We take a first look at the question: how might patterns of farming styles-under various style prefer

SUBMITTER: Lloyd SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7877765 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature