Figure 5: Farm and Farm Family Risk and Resilience Socio-Ecological Model
Source: Braun, B. & Pippidis, M. (2020, January). Farm and farm family risk and resi lience guide for Extension educational programming. University of Maryland Extension and University of Delaware Cooperative Extension. https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/canr/cooperative-extension/personal-economic-development/agribusiness/
After extensive searching, we were unable to locate a socio-ecological model that included the farm. Nor were we able to find integrated programs focused on building resilience within individuals, families, farms, and communities. We created Figure 5 , the Farm and Farm Family Risk and Resilience Socio-Ecological Model, to integrate the farm as one of the environments in which the farming population is embedded. This model, coupled with resilience thinking and doing, can serve as a frame for education, research, and professional services by Extension and partners for actions and provide a way of organizing responses and reporting evidence of impact.
We created the farm and farm family risk and resilience socio-ecological model to integrate the farm as one of the environments in which the farming population is embedded.
P U B L I C R E S P ON S E S TO P R I V A T E P RO B L EMS
Building resilience at the individual, family, and farm levels of the socio-ecological model outlined in Figure 5 will need support from the “outer levels.” Organizations, communities, and public policy can work across lines to encourage resilience thinking and build resilience for our farming populations and the communities in which they reside.
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