Climate change-induced increases in the magnitude and frequency of extreme hydro-meteorological events pose risks to the productivity and sustainability of farming systems. Resilience-enhancing strategies may enable farming systems to better cope to such threats.

A farming system’s resilience entails its ability to maintain both ecosystem and socio-economic functions during a shock.

This STSM, led by Guy Low (Agriculture and Food Business Management), will collaborate with the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University which is highly competent in weather risk management, climate change economics, and agricultural insurance.

This project will directly contribute to a pipeline of research papers that will assess the economic resilience of farming systems to weather shocks and climate extremes in Germany, the US, and worldwide. This STSM will thus also establish an intellectual link for future collaborations on farming system resilience under an uncertain future climate.