Multi-faceted impact and outcome of COVID-19 on smallholder agricultural systems: Integrating qualitative research and fuzzy cognitive mapping to explore resilient strategies

• Published in: Agricultural systems Vol. 189; p. 103051
• Main Authors: Goswami, Rupak, Roy, Kalyan, Dutta, Sudarshan, Ray, Krishnendu, Sarkar, Sukamal, Brahmachari, Koushik, Nanda, Manoj Kr, Mainuddin, Mohammed, Banerjee, Hirak, Timsina, Jagadish, Majumdar, Kaushik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Amphan cyclone; Coping strategies; COVID-19 infection; farm income; farms; fuzzy logic; household expenditure; household income; India; Indian Sundarbans; irrigation water; labor; livestock; Lockdown; market access; monsoon season; pandemic; Qualitative analysis; rice; small-scale farming; soil; soil fertility; stakeholders; storms; surface water; System perturbation; India; Coping strategies; Lockdown; Qualitative analysis; System perturbation; Indian Sundarbans; Amphan cyclone

The shock of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has disrupted food systems worldwide. Such disruption, affecting multiple systems interfaces in smallholder agriculture, is unprecedented and needs to be understood from multi-stakeholder perspectives. The multiple loops of causality in the pathways o...