Risk and Resiliency Theory Four. The last theoretical model e is a new Farming Systems Resilience Assessment Theory or FSRAT (Parsonson-Ensor, & Saunders, 2011). FSRAT was devised to measure adaptation to economic, environmental, social, and institutional challenges. The creators defined farming systems resilience as the ability to maintain system functioning in the presence of “increasingly complex a nd accumulating economic, social, environmental and institutional shocks and stresses….”. They measured capacities of robustness, adaptability, and transformability. The adaptability capacity is the same concept used in the FAAR model. The Farming Systems Resilience Assessment Theoretical Framework, is shown in Figure 12 .
Closing comments about theoretical frameworks.
Though there are other theoretical frameworks or models that could be used for educational programming, we chose these four because we believe they help to explain an integrated, multi-disciplinary systems approach. They reveal the complexity of farmers, farm families, and farm systems in relation to the business of farming.
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