Johan Bastiaensen's research while affiliated with University of Antwerp and other places

... Fifth, to accomplish such re-centering, we draw from work on how socioenvironmental change is embedded within the operation of power in relation to climate change adaptation (Eriksen, Nightingale, and Eakin 2015;Nightingale 2017). Precisely what this means varies from trying to better integrate political economy dynamics into socioecology systems thinking (Van Hecken et al. 2021), to showing how cross scalar dynamics and struggles over knowledge and subject-making shape resilience dynamics (Garcia et al. 2022). Garcia et al. (2022) highlight the inequitable legacies of colonialism that underpin modern exclusions, exploitation, identities and representations through which 'resilience' is negotiated. ...

... Social processes are particularly important for the construction of agroecological territories beyond the farm level (Rosset et al. 2011;McCune et al. 2016;Bastiaensen et al. 2021). Social processes such as the peasant-to-peasant movement have driven the development of local and international institutions, such as La Via Campesina (Val et al. 2019), which contribute to increasing pressure on governments to create policy and structures supporting transitions to agroecology (Rosset 2014). ...

... Mountain landscapes have traditionally held an important reservoir of biocultural diversity and played a crucial role as providers of ecosystem services [56,57]. However, in the last century, such regions have been heavily affected by environmental, social, economic and political factors that have exacerbated the vulnerability of these places and the marginalisation of the communities living there. ...

... Green microfinancing could provide incentives for farmers or farmgate entrepreneurs to create or support residue removal and different uses of residues with the aim of making agriculture sustainable (Huybrechs et al., 2019). Similarly, these are interesting avenues for business angels or impact investments that target innovations and entrepreneurial efforts to make alternative use of crop residues (e.g. ...

... These issues are becoming more serious and thus call for drastic measures such as the development of resilience products to adapt and mitigate the effect of climate change in due course. While many actors partake in the mitigation of the effect globally, MFIs have been a major stakeholder in promoting transformations that address the challenges of climate change, particularly in the developing countries (Atahau et al., 2020;Bastiaensen et al., 2019;Dowla, 2018;Fenton, 2017;McKee, 2008;. Since many sectors including agriculture are vulnerable to climate change, disaster relief and preparedness as well as water management and sanitation thus represent investment opportunities for MFIs. ...

... The neoliberal incentive structure constructed by incentive coordination for transboundary water pollution control can help to improve the effectiveness of water pollution control under the existing ecocompensation systems that rely on command-and-control instruments. Van Hecken et al. (2018) argued that existing PES brings together a variety of environmental policies that cannot promote research and action agendas, as few people understand how existing PES are composed and co-produced through the micro-agency of different actors and the neoliberal macro-structure (Cleaver, 2017). Our results also show that PES-like eco-compensation can only reduce the sewage stock slightly. ...

... It affects the livelihood of clients in multiple ways. The most frequently reported types of impact of credit at individual, enterprise and household level are: income and saving improvement, expenditure smoothing, poverty alleviation impact, business growth impact, employment impact, schooling and health impact and asset building impact (Vaessen et al., 2010) It is in the rural areas where the largest number of poor and destitute people is found in many developing countries (Shimelles et al., 2009). To improve the livelihood of those poor, different countries implemented the provision of microfinance services mainly microcredit for both agricultural and non-agricultural activities that take place among poor households. ...

... Similarly, in the C-PES context, community organizations can jeopardize participation and even contribute to conflict if, for example, the organizations impose certain participation and tenure conditions [5,13,19,74], or if said conditions are used as political weapons [25,61]; and concentration of knowledge and decision power and the associated benefits around PES programs on certain 2 Here we refer to context as a broad group of CBEM cases, defined mostly by the resource at stake (i.e. forest or water) and the governance tradition from which they have been studied (PES or WUA, respectively). ...

... However, among such polarizing views, a growing body of empirical research has recently begun to shed light on the various ways in which local peasants and communities adapt, alter, resist, and respond to PES, and how such engagement leads to both expected and unintended socio-environmental consequences (Shapiro-Garza et al., 2020). This work has investigated if pro-or anti-neoliberal interpretations of PES conform with actual policy practice, and whether alternative theorizations are needed (McElwee et al., 2014;Van Hecken et al., 2018). ...

... In reviewing the role of gender in the value chain, most previous scholars have considered employment, working situations, salary and age as well as the marital status of women (Flores & Bastiaensen, 2017). The selling price of cassava had a positive effect on female's decisions to participate in cassava cultivation but the effect was not significant. ...