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In the context of climate change and globalisation, enhancing resilience of farming systems is as an important factor for the sustainability of food systems. The Canton of Vaud (Switzerland) has a great diversity of agroecosystems and farming systems. To assess [...]

The publication presents the results from the assessment of climate resilience levels of 16 agroecological farms located in Costa Rica's Central Valley. The authors compare the profile of each farm with national level indicators, and suggest some options to improve [...]

Building climate resilience, defined as the ability to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from climate change in a timely and efficient manner, is becoming a major priority of development across multiple sectors. However, there is still no consensus on how [...]

Farming systems’ resilience assessments mostly focused on the study of developing countries. Thus, to fill this gap, the main aim of this research was to propose an adaptation of the existing SHARP tool from a developing countries context to a [...]

A document outlining the history and development of the SHARP tool, as well as the scientific background of the methodology has been published and is available on FAO's document repository.

New publication from the BRACED consortium discussing the concept of resilience and its use within the partner organizations' work. The BRACED consortium received training on SHARP in late 2015 and is now using the tool to gather baseline data from over [...]

In this publicaiton, Groundswell discuss their project Agroecology Plus Six (AE+6) and the use of the SHARP tool to gather data on climate resilience as part of the project.

Can farmers & pastoralists self-assess their climate-resilience? This blog post prepared by the SHARP team and published online by the CGIAR programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems explores the concept of resilience and the challenges and successes in using the [...]

A poster on SHARP "Integrating climate resilience into sustainable production systems in sub-Saharan Africa" was prepared and presented at the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO HQ in Rome in September 2014.